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 ...

Recently, Bernheim was granted national accreditation by the Plant Collections Network of the American Public Gardens ...

Few average Joes can correctly identify every species of oak growing in North America. That’s the kind of Final Jeopardy-level knowledge typically reserved for foresters, wildlife biologists, and very ...

Many caterpillars feed on the leaves of oak trees. Most will not do much damage, but some can pose a real threat to the health of the tree. Here’s what you need to know to identify the caterpillars on ...

The native oak tree is the “King of Keystones.” All native plants play a key role in our environment, but some natives are such powerhouses that they earn the title of “keystone species.” A keystone ...

From tiny acorns mighty oaks do grow. If your landscape has been blessed with an oak tree, you already know that an oak can produce a lot of acorns in its lifetime (or yours). Millions actually. Maybe ...

The 2025 Acorn Mast survey, conducted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, finds an average of 72% of red oaks and 56 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

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.