Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

From tiny acorns mighty oaks do grow. If your landscape has been blessed with an oak tree, you already know that an oak can produce a lot of acorns in its lifetime (or yours). Millions actually. Maybe ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

Often when an oak tree gets planted in Northeast Florida, it is a live oak. Live oaks are native, long lived and very tolerant of urban conditions. While it is not a bad thing at all to plant a live ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

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Springtime may seem like a great time to get outside with a chainsaw and prune everything in sight, but don’t make that mistake with your oak trees. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources asks ...

INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE TEAM. THE 160,000 ACRES OF BERNHEIM FOREST AND ARBORETUM ARE HOME TO COUNTLESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND AS OUR SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, THE FOREST NOW HAS AN EXPANDED ...