RAMONA — The distinguishing characteristic of the popular campground at Dos Picos County Park in Ramona has for decades been its lush canopy of coastal live oak trees providing remarkable shade ...

Live Oak Park is a perfect setting for an old-fashioned family picnic under the canopy of this rare old-growth oak grove.

That gives them a dense canopy so they work well as shade trees. And a mature live oak can put out a lot of acorns, which is fine if you happen to have a lot of deer or squirrels or feral pigs around.

In areas where there is not great competition for sunlight, such as Cellon Oak Park, this poses no problem for the live oak; but when the canopy begins to close around it, the live oak becomes ...

Uptown planted the 200th tree on Post Oak Boulevard in June, representing a significant milestone in its ongoing transformation. The 4,000-pound, 35-foot cathedral live oak tree was custom grown ...

1. Increase the diversity of our tree canopy so that it is no longer a virtual live oak monoculture. Plant live oaks only where live oaks grow best and add the most to our city canopy.

I was mowing my lawn a few days ago when I noticed that I could no longer walk under the canopy of my young live oak tree.

The majestic live oak is losing its battle for survival to suburban sprawl and the encroachment of taller trees, a new University of Florida study finds. An icon in American history and literature ...

Cathedral Oak develops a full, dense canopy. Its habit is pyramidal when young but spreads as it matures without sprawling the way a standard live oak does.

It’s taken seven years for a renovation and redesign project to claim nearly a dozen live oak trees along Duval Street at the Florida State Capitol. The trees that provided a canopy of shade ...

Live oaks (Quercus virginiana) are active this time of year, putting out pollen and shedding leaves from the canopy to produce new leaves. Many allergy sufferers, including myself, find this time ...