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 ...

Q: I have a house in Houston. Does blooming of tropical trees like Bauhinia, Erythrina and Tabebuia depend on their age or size? I plant these trees in the ground. They freeze. They come back but they ...

Q: I purchased Azoxystrobin as you recommended for control of lawn diseases, but I can’t figure out how to use it. The instructions seem to be more for golf course use than for my 1,500 square feet of ...

Burger King is the home of The Whopper. But at one Burger King in Beaufort, the real whopper stands outside. From the bed adjoining the fast-food restaurant’s parking lot, the giant, 175-year-old live ...

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 ...

Dear Neil: What is this little weed? Could the nearby live oak tree be causing them? What can I use to eliminate them without harming my live oak? A: You’re not going to be happy with my answer. The ...

For all the attention we give our flower beds, trees are an indispensable part of our landscape. Oaks, pecans, magnolias and others add shade, character and beauty to our yards. But behind their ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A historic live oak tree was cut down in Gonzales Thursday night, and residents are outraged. All that’s left of the tree is a stump and a picture of the Lorax. The Lorax is ...

I have heard from a few residents who live in subdivisions where they are beginning to remove all the large trees (oaks, magnolia, etc.) because they are causing damage to the sidewalks or filling up ...