ideastream: John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, provided his expertise in a story about a historic English oak tree being replanted at Rockefeller Pond in ...

Houston’s landscape may look browner than usual after this week’s frigid spell, but where the environment is healthy, there is no such thing as the ‘dead’ of winter. Hundreds of species of creatures ...

“Sing for the Oak Tree, the Monarch of the Wood.” These words were written by English poet Mary Botham Howitt, who died in 1888. She may be best known for her amusing creation, “The Spider and the Fly ...

The champions of the 1936 Berlin Olympics received a unique gift: along with their gold medals, they were given one-year-old English oak trees (Quercus pedunculata) measuring 50–70 centimetres in ...

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.

January is not typically the time of year when we think about doing yard work, unless you consider removing outdoor Christmas decorations yard work! However, due to a deadly disease which is spreading ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It’s possible this year is a mast year for your oak trees, which would explain the exceptionally high yield of acorns. During a mast year, a fruit-bearing tree produces more ...