NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It’s possible this year is a mast year for your oak trees, which would explain the exceptionally high yield of acorns. During a mast year, a fruit-bearing tree produces more ...

SAN ANTONIO – Oak trees are the backbone of South Central Texas. Hardy, evergreen and beautiful, oak trees can also provide plenty of shade. But neighborhoods like Live Oak, Shavano Park, Hollywood ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young buck paws at the ground and feeds on acorns. (Photo by Aaron J Hill / Adobe Stock) Few average Joes can correctly identify ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Big oaks are one of the dominant tree types across our metroparks. We even have a whole region named after them, but they’re increasingly threatened by the spread of a disease ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...