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What's killing these oak trees in the Midwest? Conservationists believe drifting herbicides are to blame
The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species—white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, ...
Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...
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.
Many coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees are showing unusual browning in their canopies in the last month or two. If you look carefully, you may see small, crescent-shaped galls forming on the ...
Jun. 21—ATHENS — "What's wrong with the leaves on my oak tree? Is my tree dying?" Over the past several weeks, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension offices across north Georgia have been ...
For those of you who aren’t aware that live oak trees drop their leaves every year despite the fact that we describe them as evergreen, look at the ground now. If you have live oak trees, they have ...
The fallen leaves and cool temperatures are all signs it’s safe to prune oak trees in Michigan. Oak trees can be infected by the oak wilt fungus if they’re pruned anytime between April 15 through July ...
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 29 (UPI) --Scientists in Florida have confirmed what some citrus growers suspected for years -- that oak trees could inhibit citrus greening disease, which has brought the once ...
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