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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The iconic Big Tree, a 1,000-plus,-year-old coastal live oak at Goose Island State park near Rockport, before the Hurricane Harvey. The tree, one of the largest coastal live oaks in Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...