One thing you’ll want to leave off your landscaping to-do list, at least for a while, is pruning your oak trees. February ...

Those brilliantly colored trees have a price, and though they look pretty, it can be a messy business. One of the worst culprits of fall yard mess? The red oak. Also called the northern red oak ...

Oaks typically fall into one of two major subspecies ... and they’ll scarf down reds whenever they can get them. Red oak trees have smoother bark and leaves with pointy edges.

will germinate soon after they're planted in the fall, but as previously noted, pin oak, red oak, and bur oak trees need a ...

In the fall, leaves change from medium green to a red to reddish brown color. One key characteristic of pin oak are the branches, which angle downward especially on the lower part of the tree. The pin ...

Hardy, evergreen and beautiful, oak trees ... then the tree is signaling that it is sick. Live oaks usually remain evergreen, so the leaves don’t turn brown until after they fall on the ground.

The leaves turn from a dark green in the summer to yellow and brown in the fall. The bark is dark gray and blocky, with long running ridges. Shingle oak tends to keep its lower dead limbs attached to ...