The Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata) in Great Falls spent most of its life — a reported 200+ years — well-lived and protected in the right-of-way along Georgetown Pike. Known as the ...

This great landscape and shade tree is often call by its more common name of Southern Red Oak. The tree is slow growing, but produces a dense shade from an ever spreading canopy once it matures.

Anlace/Wikimedia Commons. Red oak is included in a group of oaks (northern and southern red oaks) categorized by that same name. Other red oak family members include pin oak, Shumard oak, black ...

With new roots, seeks a newer, fuller life, which it finds as a second tree. Zoom out from that amazing branch to the southern live oak — Quercus virginiana — and you can see life itself.

This week we're looking at the "Southern red oak” or “Spanish oak,” Quercus falcata. There is one growing in my front yard here in Columbia. It’s a wonderful tree, must be 70 feet tall ...