Oak tree with brown, brittle leaves during oak moth infestation. (Marcia Heller photo) I might unwittingly be carving out a ...

Many coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees are showing unusual browning in their canopies in the last month or two. If you look carefully, you may see small, crescent-shaped galls forming on the ...

For those of you who aren’t aware that live oak trees drop their leaves every year despite the fact that we describe them as evergreen, look at the ground now. If you have live oak trees, they have ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

Dear Neil: What is this little weed? Could the nearby live oak tree be causing them? What can I use to eliminate them without harming my live oak? A: You’re not going to be happy with my answer. The ...

Cut summer heat and AC costs by planting shade trees like live oak, Texas red oak, cedar elm and Mexican sycamore.

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...

I have heard from a few residents who live in subdivisions where they are beginning to remove all the large trees (oaks, magnolia, etc.) because they are causing damage to the sidewalks or filling up ...

After two large live oak trees on the former Piccadilly restaurant site in Gonzales were cut down Thursday, city leaders are considering an ordinance to prevent this from happening again, city ...