After many kilometres, the chain on my bike comes off next to a majestic oak. The tree becomes Quercus: a friend, a confidant ...

I headed up to Garland to see for myself what had happened to the 200-acre Spring Creek Forest Preserve. Some fellow volunteers were there, as were representatives from Dallas County. The city of ...

You can remove poison oak from your yard by hand or with an herbicide. No matter which method you choose, wear protective ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced there are worsening conditions of beech leaf disease in the state.

Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects and mites, and ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I told you ... Read more The post What Tree Bark Can Tell You About Local ...

Q: This oak was planted a few years ago. Initially it was diagnosed with sun scald. Despite measures to try to help it, it just seems to be going downhill. When it budded out this spring there was new ...

The life of the wool sower gall wasp Wool sower galls are found primarily on white oak trees (Quercus alba) but may also be found on chestnut (Q. montana), swamp chestnut (Q. michauxii ), and swamp ...

Spring allergies have been worse this year due to heavy rainfall that caused a prolonged tree pollen season upstate.

They feed on leaves, impacting the growth of oak trees and leaving it vulnerable to stresses like drought and disease. The oak processionary moth is not native to the UK.

Those fast-growing shade trees all have serious fatal flaws that make them messy, weak, ugly, and risky. Most of us wouldn’t put those words in our list of attributes when we went shopping for a ...

Here's how to grow an oak tree from a germinated acorn with these easy-to-follow instructions on how to collect, properly prepare, and plant an acorn.