The larger the tree and the closer it is to roads and traffic, the more sensitive to manipulation and treatment it is. While the goal is to preserve tree life and encourage tree growth, we have to ...

A plaque dedication was held in Ingleside this morning, for the largest live Oak tree in Live Oak Park... And they didn't go out on a limb to make that claim. The tree stands 34 feet tall, with a ...

With new roots, seeks a newer, fuller life, which it finds as a second tree. Zoom out from that amazing branch to the southern live oak — Quercus virginiana — and you can see life itself.

This live oak photographed on April 18, 2025, is just feet from Ribaut Road and has been growing for an estimated 200 years in Beaufort. A local tree expert, Michael Murphy with Preservation Tree ...

DEAR NEIL: I have two live oak trees in my front yard. Both were damaged by the February 2021 cold. One of them looks really bad in its lower trunk. Is it “doomed?” It is as green as normal at ...

There is definitely something wrong with this tree, almost assuredly within the wood of the tree. The bark is splitting and appears about to separate from the rest of the trunk.

The severed limb of a live oak tree in Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Friday, July 7, 2023. A large part of the branch fell severely injuring a 16-year-old who was in the park.

The live oak in question is not the only one in the park: Palumbo walked over to the tree's "sister," and gestured to where the bark on low-lying branches was worn smooth from kids playing on it.

For example, say that a live oak tree stays on the smaller end and just spreads out thirty feet on either side of the trunk, producing the minimum 60-foot spread of the branches.

The trunk measures 9 feet around, and folks in the insurance office believe the oak is probably a good century old. To Jessica, it's a heck of a lot more important than some road.