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 ...

Q. I want to collect the large acorns from a bur oak near my home. I collected them years ago, but the past few I have not seen the fruit. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong time of year? Do they bear ...

Q: I picked up egg-sized acorns from a bur oak in DeWitt County. Can I start them in pots and transplant to my property in Matagorda County? — M.V, Houston A: The bur oak is in the white oak group.

Late September is a marvelous time in which we witness the autumn moving in at a faster pace. The migration of raptors continues as these birds channel down the North Shore, passing over us as they ...

Acorns are beginning to shed from oak trees with fall’s arrival in the Midwest. To some, the acorns are a welcome sign of cooler days to come and can even provide entertainment by attracting wildlife.

Since I first got interested in native edible plants, I had heard about the edibility of oak acorns. I read in many books and articles in mainstream publications and heard personal accounts that ...

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. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

It’s not often I vacuum my backyard. Actually, I’ve never vacuumed it until last week. My problem was an increasing number of acorns the neighborhood squirrels were chewing off our bur oak tree (also ...

Our daughter, Sarah, gave Pam and I four grandchildren. The first two, Alyssa, twelve, and Lane, ten, are ordinary enough, but the last two are cut a little bit differently. Colt, three, I think was ...