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This is a regular occurrence each fall, but the weather may have contributed to the abundance of galls around oak trees across Houston. That's not necessarily a good thing.
This week on Backyard Farmer we’ll try to diagnose an oak disease and get your landscape plants well watered for the fall. The panelist answers viewers' questions about insects and pests, lawn ...
Gardening How pruning an oak tree at the right time can head off a deadly new disease Published: Nov. 14, 2024, 6:00 a.m.
Interestingly enough, I noticed the same thing under an oak tree in my backyard this morning while I was out with our dogs. There were a lot of 12- to 18-inch branch tips from the ends of branches ...
If small clusters of leaves on some branch tips of an oak tree turn brown, this is oak leaf flagging. The most common cause ...
Oak wilt is one of the most impactful tree diseases nationally, and is particularly destructive here in Central Texas, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Many times, bites can happen while gardening, especially when raking infested pin oak leaves in the fall. According to WebMD, a single large pin oak tree can rain down up to 400,000 oak leaf itch ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The City of Richmond will conduct an extensive review of large city-owned willow oak trees in a Northside neighborhood after two trees fell during a storm last week and landed on ...
“I came down to see, like wow, that tree finally fell over,” said John Stoddard, who lives up the street. Neighbors, like Stoddard, said they’ve seen that tall oak tree leaning for some time.