KYLE, Texas — A 500,000-pound oak tree along Old Stagecoach Road in Kyle is getting a second chance at life in a new location. Crews are spending two days moving the 400-year-old tree to prepare for a ...

The stately live oak tree next to the old A.J. Moore High School tennis court on Jefferson Avenue has survived prairie fires, droughts, settlements of Waco Indians and pioneers, a tornado and the ...

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 ...

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DEAR NEIL: What is wrong with my live oak? I hope it’s not a disease, since I have five others in my yard, and I don’t want it to spread. What should I do? Dear Reader: You need to have an ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

Q: 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 ...

Live Oak Trees, like all oak trees grow from seeds, in this case, an acorn. All oak trees also produce catkins which hang down from the oak branches in the spring, pollinate the very small oak flowers ...