“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 ...

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 ...

A single large pin oak tree can rain down up to 400,000 oak leaf itch mites per day. Oak mites can live through the winter in protected areas or within leaves/leaf litter on the ground.

Cicada season may be over, but another pest emerges right after. Here's how to prevent possible bites and rashes from oak ...

It’s not the biggest. It’s not the oldest. But it’s rare to find a big oak in such a highly developed area. Here’s how it manages to thrive at a Burger King in Beaufort.

If you have more than one live oak in your landscape, you probably have sprouts emerging from the ground from at least one mature tree and maybe other sprouts spread over the landscape. Some ...

Redbud tree causes concern, piles of live oak leaves could harm Asian jasmine groundcover By Neil Sperry , Contributor March 24, 2023 This redbud has a crack in the trunk that could cause the tree ...

A: You’re not going to be happy with my answer. The holly-like leaves are juvenile foliage of live oaks. That’s the way live oak seedlings look when they germinate. As the saplings grow taller ...

Two large live oak trees were cut down Thursday from the site of the former Picadilly restaurant in Gonzales. At right, is a pile of debris left from one of the trees.

This live oak photographed on April 18, 2025, is just feet from Ribaut Road and has been growing for an estimated 200 years in Beaufort. A local tree expert, Michael Murphy with Preservation Tree ...

For example, say that a live oak tree stays on the smaller end and just spreads out thirty feet on either side of the trunk, producing the minimum 60-foot spread of the branches.

The holly-like leaves coming up from under the rocks are juvenile foliage of live oaks. These are probably sprouts coming up from the root system of the mother tree.