Those metal bands, also known as baffles, strapped around trees are not holding the tree together, but they do have a purpose ...

The Pecan Tree; Hot and Humid; No One But Myself to Blame; X Marks the Spot; Fool's Gold; Spanish Moss; In a Heartbeat; El Dorado; With These Hands; The Texas Two ...

This shot didn’t win, but the pecan would become the Texas state tree in 1919. Its popularity had been growing since 1906, when former Governor James Hogg’s last wishes included a walnut tree ...

Hogg, a sentimentalist who said that when he died he wanted no monument of stone, but instead, “Let my children plant at the head of my grave a pecan tree and at my feet an old-fashioned wlanut ...

He said, ‘well I’m missing my tractor shed,’” said Crittenten. “It looked a whole lot better on his property than it did on ...

If you’ve ever noticed an older pecan tree that no longer yields good-quality nuts — or produces none at all — scab is likely the culprit. To reduce the chances of dealing with a scab ...

Many homes were custom-made to fit the special constraints of a property, such as the Austin ADU with a cantilevered section of foundation designed to protect the roots of an adjacent pecan tree ...

I had a relatively minor limb cut from my pecan tree less than one year ago. Now there seems to be a very large amount of bark falling from the trunk following recent winds. I don’t know that it ...

This was all trial and error. I built the entire thing out of deck screws and no nails. I even built a stairway up to the ...

The city of Pflugerville is using nearly $150,000 in grant funding to increase overall tree canopy in local neighborhoods to ...