Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The rampant growth of Chinese tallow trees in and around New Orleans has caused a conundrum for scientists ...

On April 21, you published an article, “Above And BEEyond.” It had some good information. However, there was a glaring statement which goes against everything that experts in forestry, agriculture or ...

Lowcountry property owners are being  encouraged to exchange up to five invasive Bradford Pear or Chinese tallow trees for an equal number of free, healthy, native, young replacement trees.

There is an attractive tree that you may have noticed or even have growing in your yard. Tall and graceful, it has fluttering heart-shaped blue-green leaves in summer that turn yellow or red in the ...

Q: I am trying to remove lawn grass from a part of my yard. There are three large, old crape myrtles in that area, and they have extensive root systems. In removing the grass, I have damaged their ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects ...

Four jugs of water and a pillow hung from Lynda Bermuda's Chinese tallow tree Friday afternoon as she sat on a foldable lawn chair tied to one of its branches and refused to come down. The Uptown ...