Residents of Leon and Wakulla counties may be noticing dead or dying laurel oaks in yards or along the roads. If you look at these trees carefully, you will see round, wooden balls on the twigs and ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY — There was an oak tree in the backyard when Abby LeCroy and her parents moved to the 5200 block of Mild Drive. She was in fifth grade. As she grew up, so did the tree.

We have had numerous calls and samples about funny looking "bumps" on the leaves of oak trees. These growths are known as galls, and alarming as they may seem, they do not injure the plant. Galls are ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Although we got off to a slow start to the growing season, farmers around the area are harvesting hay and gardeners have planted plenty of tomatoes, ...

Q • Why are the oak trees in our neighborhood losing leaves in bunches? A • You don’t say anything about the condition of the leaves, but if they are coming off in green bunches, then they are oaks ...

The horned oak gall forms on twigs of Quercus palustris Muench. and is initiated when the wasp Callirhytis cornigera O.S. oviposits into the periderm or cortex of the twigs. Injury to phellogen as a ...

Those spiky golf ball-sized gnarls that have appeared all over oak trees are not an extraterrestrial life form. And the gelatinous orange globs that showed up on junipers are not visitors from another ...

Trees add value to the landscape, so homeowners may become concerned when their trees develop unusual growths. Here are some questions about these growths with answers from horticulturists at Iowa ...

Question: Can you describe sudden oak wilt; what is oak gall; and when is the proper time of year to prune my oak tree? Advanced Master Gardener Dan Draves says: There are many insects that cause the ...

Twenty-five years ago, when rows of young pin oaks were planted along Man o' War Boulevard near the entrance to Blue Grass Airport, the idea was that columns of stately trees would someday welcome ...

Q. I came across a big tree, probably an oak at the Strafford Subdivision in Fairview Heights, which bears many acorns and a single fruit that looks like a drupe. How is this possible? I have attached ...