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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Q: A squirrel must have planted a bur oak acorn in one of our pots last year, because we were blessed with a seedling this spring. It grew well (27 inches tall), although it was attacked by a fungus ...

BRAINERD — Last week’s cooler weather beckoned those who lean toward the outdoors, or at least got them thinking about it. Read more Bill Marchel I took advantage of the comfortable temperatures to ...

Well, since it's December already and Christmas is literally just around the corner, it sure seems like 2020 went by at a pretty rapid rate. As I've said before, my personal time machine seems to be ...