Learn how to control live oak sprouts, handle acorn crops, and protect young shade trees from mower and deer damage.

The tree’s fortitude has become even more important in the era of climate change, and the live oak still represents a life raft for those in the paths of tropical storms.

Understanding the differences in red oak vs white oak trees could help swing the deer hunting odds in your favor.

Red oak trees have smoother bark and leaves with pointy edges. Red oaks have pointed leaves and often round, squat acorns; white oaks have leaves with rounded lobes and acorns are often more ...

The iconic Big Tree, a 1,000-plus,-year-old coastal live oak at Goose Island State park near Rockport, before the Hurricane Harvey.

This is the story of the Olga Oak, a tree that — by slim chance — survived more than two centuries after it fell as an acorn, and still lives today ...

Majestic oak trees have been capturing attention long before travelers on the Oregon Trail stopped their wagons and set up their new life. Indigenous people nurtured oaks for edible acorns, and ...

I fear, however, that these are not seedlings from acorns. These are probably sprouts coming up from the root system of the mother tree.

Live oak acorns don’t produce many new trees in a mature landscape but they do help insure the survival of the species and provide an important supply of food for area wildlife.