Watch an oak tree growing from an acorn to a young plant over 133 days in this time-lapse. We picked white oak because it can be germinated immediately without a need for cold-stratification like red ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. Here are questions about how this is done with answers ...

This subject should have appeared last fall. Our giant northern red oak had a massive crop of acorns — the largest crop ever — for this giant tree planted around 1970. At that time, the young tree was ...

Propagation is one of my favorite things to do. It's a rewarding feeling to be able to multiply your indoor and outdoor plants, and I love to share my propagations with friends and family. That's why ...

Q. We planted a 10-foot-tall red oak in 1998. We love the fall color it gives us. This year it is producing a large crop of acorns. We would like to plant some acorns on our property in the Texas Hill ...

An effort to plant oak acorns by the thousands is receiving a boost from Napa County in the wake of the tree-devastating October 2017 wildfires. The Napa County Resource Conservation District (RCD) is ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

The planting was part of an effort to mitigate the loss of trees due to construction of the Napa Valley Vine Trail, a bicycle and pedestrian pathway that will eventually extend 47 miles from Calistoga ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Since 2016, a dedicated group of nature enthusiasts and I have worked to restore and protect monarchs ...

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