This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Holm is an old English word for holly. Leaves, especially young ones, of ...

In the deepest days of winter, when all seems dark, nature is hard at work. Take the acorn. Somewhere, under the litter of leaves in the woods, in the angle of a fallen log, or in the tilled soil of a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - It’s possible this year is a mast year for your oak trees, which would explain the exceptionally high yield of acorns. During a mast year, a fruit-bearing tree produces more ...

If you’ve been on a walk lately, you may notice the sidewalks are a bit more crunchy than usual, with a lot more acorns on the ground this year. Texas oak trees are experiencing something called a ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - If you’ve been outside recently, there’s a high chance you’ve seen a lot of acorns lying around. If it seems like there’s been more than in previous years, you’re not nutty, but ...

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 well documented that trees which produce seeds for propagation, like oak, pine, maple and the various nut trees among many others, have what's called "mast years" where an unusually high number ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

Determining the identity of a tree can be a bit challenging, especially during winter when leaves are not present. This is when knowing other characteristics are very helpful. Take the oak trees, as ...

Do you feel like you're crunching on acorns every time you step outside? In Ohio, that could be true. That's thanks to a slightly above average production of acorns from white oaks. In some places, it ...