Many San Antonio neighborhoods are blessed with large live oak trees, some of which have had their flare roots buried in years past to better meet the landscape owner’s idea of a more attractive ...

Q: We planted a live oak tree 51 years ago — the year we bought our house. Unfortunately, we planted it too close to the house and the driveway. Last year, it broke up half of the driveway with its ...

I have multiple roots from a live oak running along my front yard. I would like to grind them down with a wood carver disc, so the bottom deck and blade of my rider mower do not get torn up. I thought ...

One morning in early November, a large excavator pulled into the driveway of Joseph Evans’ home in Gentilly Terrace and started breaking apart his driveway apron and sidewalk. In the process, it also ...

A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

JOHNS ISLAND — Roughly 400,000 people visit the Angel Oak every year. They admire the texture of its bark, its enormous branches as large as trees themselves and the shade of its canopy. If they could ...

Dear Neil: My two huge live oaks (planted by my parents in 1938) are about to cause major root problems. One is sending large roots toward our house's foundation. The other's roots have destroyed our ...