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May 12, 2021 Not dead yet! It’s not just a quote from Monty Python—it’s the word from the experts at Texas A&M. Our beautiful Live Oaks that look like they might not have survived the February freeze may still have life in them yet! As in, don’t do what I did, and call for the arborist to put the seemingly dead tree out of its misery. Thankfully, A&M put the word out to WAIT! In our neighborhood, in a common area, it looks as though the HOA has marked a few dozen trees to be cut down—and I certainly hope that the people in charge have seen the article.

I have long held an affinity for our natural environment. As a child I loved seeing the changing colors of fall leaves in Wisconsin. They just simply enthralled as whirling seeds of maple, bright red, announced the arrival of spring, even more than the new flowers to me. As time passed my family moved to Florida. Gone were these ebbing tides of the seasons, everything here stayed green all year. Now oaks with their tapestries of moss signaled the passage of time. Blanketing everything with their leaves at random, pollen choking the air, acorns plinking off car roofs. I loved their history but...

Local realty company, plant nursery give away free oak trees for Arbor Day Naturescape Nursery and Parks Jones Realty partner to give away Shumard Oaks By Cheyenne Cole | April 24, 2021 at 1:02 PM CDT - Updated April 24 at 1:02 PM LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - A realty company and plant nursery are celebrating Arbor Day by helping beautify the community with oak trees. Parks Jones Realty and Naturescape Nursery partnered to give the first 200 customers at the nursery a free oak tree Saturday. With recent severe winter weather, the companies wanted to help homeowners by providing free trees to ...

Buffalo Trace joins university on oak tree research project April 14, 2021 GMT FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Buffalo Trace Distillery and the University of Kentucky are working together on a tree planting and research project aimed at strengthening the white oak industry’s sustainability. The study kicked off with the planting of 1,066 trees on the distillery’s farm on Monday, Buffalo Trace said. University and Buffalo Trace officials joined volunteers to plant seedlings from 40 different parent trees from Kentucky and several other states. New seedlings will be added during the next two years ...

Caterpillars come out for Spring Beware of stinging varieties and even those that don’t sting could cause problems The spring window is open for tons of these caterpillars around the region. (Source: Eric Griggs) By Nicondra Norwood | March 31, 2021 at 10:15 PM CDT - Updated March 31 at 10:15 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Longer days and more sunshine might top the list of spring positives, but the switch brings a few negatives as well. Along with pollen, termites and mosquitoes caterpillars may round out the bottom of the list. Dr. Eric Griggs encountered a tiny invader. He said, â€�...