NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The City of New Orleans says the tree that crashed on Carrollton Avenue on Tuesday, injuring a woman, was the third incident involving a live oak in just 24 hours. Mayor LaToya ...

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 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 ...

Mayor Latoya Cantrell said the live oak tree that came crashing down onto South Carrollton Avenue Tuesday had been inspected recently. The Mayor told reporters the tree was healthy. Cantrell blamed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Don't talk to Jessica Peters about progress. She'll just shake her head and turn the discussion to beauty, to history, to shade. The 8-year-old New Port Richey resident already has heard the ...