During a particularly hot afternoon in June, my staff and I were walking a shaded trail at Garden in the Woods in Framingham ...

Cicada season may be over, but another pest emerges right after. Here's how to prevent possible bites and rashes from oak ...

In a collaboration between Irvington High School and Dows Lane Elementary School, a group of students came together to plant eight native red oak saplings as part of the “Little […] ...

They impact tomatoes, marigolds, beans, squash, and a variety of other landscape and garden plants. Thump leaves from a ...

The Bowdoin Tree Tour is an outgrowth of a 2023 survey, first worked on by Dylan Petrillo ’26 for a unique summer job. He ...

While those shiny green leaves lining the base of a tree might look harmless, poison ivy isn't anything to mess around with, especially when the results of touching it are an itchy red rash that lasts ...

DEAR NEIL: We have a red oak in our backyard. Bark started peeling in the fall, but it has become prevalent this spring. There are also tiny holes in the trunk like a woodpecker might cause, but ...

And no small tree in Texas has better red fall foliage than flameleaf sumac. It’s adapted to all kinds of soils, and its leaves turn screaming red for a couple of weeks every autumn.

“You'll go from having a healthy tree to over a few weeks noticing browned leaf edges, leaves falling for no reason apparently.” The DNR says now is the best time to prune your oak trees.

Red oaks have leaves with pointed tips and include black oak, northern red oak, and northern pin oak. Trees in the white oak group have rounded leaf edges and include white oak, swamp white oak ...

A White oak tree in Barrington. There's an explosion of acorns this year as red oaks and related trees are having a mast year. Then there’s the critical role oak trees play in the larger ecosystem.

In September, 87% of trees in the red oak family were documented with acorns, compared to a historical average of 57%. In contrast, only 9% of trees in the white oak family were found to have ...