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.

Gardening season is underway, and you may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live. A photo is very helpful. Q: Our oak tree ...

Many coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees are showing unusual browning in their canopies in the last month or two. If you look carefully, you may see small, crescent-shaped galls forming on the ...

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 have ...

Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.

On a February day, it may seem as if all the trees and shrubs — except for the evergreens or conifers — are leafless. But a walk in the neighborhood, or a local natural area, will reveal that’s not ...

Live Oak Trees, like all oak trees grow from seeds, in this case, an acorn. All oak trees also produce catkins which hang down from the oak branches in the spring, pollinate the very small oak flowers ...