Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

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.

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 ...

Q: I have an 8-year-old oak tree. It looks like it has a girdling root. Should we cut through the root in two places so it can be removed, or should we leave well enough alone. A: Definitely trim and ...

Many San Antonio neighborhoods are blessed with large live oak trees, some of which have had their flare roots buried in years past to better meet the landscape owner’s idea of a more attractive ...

I have heard from a few residents who live in subdivisions where they are beginning to remove all the large trees (oaks, ...

I have multiple roots from a live oak running along my front yard. I would like to grind them down with a wood carver disc, so the bottom deck and blade of my rider mower do not get torn up. I thought ...

For more than 35 years, June Burgess shared neighborly space with a giant white oak tree that grew in the middle of Carolina Avenue in South Roanoke. When the 400-year-old landmark tree collapsed in ...

Oak trees sent to the University of Connecticut that originated in a Maryland nursery appeared to have been infected with oak wilt, but the trees were destroyed before the disease could be positively ...