“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss ... trees can live for over a thousand years—and for its signature limbs, with their sinuous, gangly quirkiness ...

A tree branch doing something I’d never seen before. To the right, I could see a great oak ... species, southern live oaks host and support many other diverse species including Spanish mosses ...

There was no doubt the tree would come first and the house would come second," says owner Stephanie Dixon, referring to the mighty Spanish moss-draped live oak in her St. Simons Island ...

Its beefy trunk erupts a few feet from the noisy road as exhaust-spewing vehicles whiz by, while its limbs, draped with Spanish moss ... tree,” he said. But there’s more to the live oak ...

A tree branch doing something I’d never seen before. To the right, I could see a great oak ... species, southern live oaks host and support many other diverse species including Spanish mosses ...