“Old Glory,” a roughly 400-year-old Valley Oak tree in Stevenson Ranch, became a Los Angeles County Historic Landmark this week. Why it matters: But it wasn’t always a walk in the park to ...

The tree stands proud, alone, about 80 feet high, with green leaves and a thick trunk, unmarked except for the white fence around it. The massive oak, with the scientific name Quercus lobata ...

Peter Wohlleben is the author of The Hidden Life of Trees (now a film on Netflix), which highlights some extraordinary facts about how trees communicate ... He told me how more recent research has ...

So, what is Oaktober? October is Oak Awareness Month, which is the celebration of oak trees. Arkansas celebrates oak trees through Oaktober, where Arkansans can plant oak trees, volunteer to care ...

"The best part of it is really that I've watched them fall in love with identifying the trees," Felan said. The junior botanists also created paper signs displaying various facts about oak trees ...

If you have oak trees in your yard you may be dealing with a bumper crop of acorns this fall (2024) with buckets of them coming down covering roads, driveways, sidewalks, and lawns in some places.

And when the oak trees are stressed, they’re more susceptible to viruses and things like that.” “In the Quad Cities, we have oak wilt, which is our number one outright tree killer,” he said.

They're the tiny, fuzzy yellow or brown balls on oak leaves and branches. You could spot one or two, then dozens around the same tree. Oak galls are the result of gall wasps. Inside the galls are ...