This week's Master Gardener column offers advice for covering plants for winter — and the best materials to use — as well as ...

The winter months are the ideal time to prune oak trees in Michigan if you don’t want to put them at high risk for oak wilt. Oak wilt is a fungal disease that can weaken white oaks and kill red ...

There is a high risk of infection by sap-feeding beetles through exposed wounds on oak trees from April 15 through July 15, but a low risk of infection through the remainder of the summer.

Numerous oak species are native to or common in Pennsylvania, where they populate forests, grow as back-yard shade trees, and serve as arguably the best host plant for bird-feeding caterpillars.

Oak wilt is caused by the fungus Bretziella fagacearum and it will kill oak trees, especially trees in the red oak family, including black oak, northern red oak, and northern pin oak.

Along with spruce and hawthorn, one of the best trees to plant in your backyard for bird-friendly winter habitat is the Chapman oak (Quercus chapmanii). Trees in the Quercus genus are among the ...

While all oak trees belong to the same genus (Quercus), “oak” is a broad umbrella term that covers roughly 500 different species. Some of those species differ wildly from one another. The good news is ...

The iconic Big Tree, a 1,000-plus,-year-old coastal live oak at Goose Island State park near Rockport, before the Hurricane Harvey. The tree, one of the largest coastal live oaks in Texas ...

Oak trees, like the ones in Audubon Park, ... New Orleans residents marveled in wonder this week after a rare winter storm dropped a historic 10 inches of snow on the Crescent City.