Love watching hummingbirds and butterflies? Well, if you plant this fast-growing tree in your yard, those beautiful creatures ...

When you close your eyes and think of a Southern summer garden, the first image may be an ancient live oak with low, ... image is puffs of sunset sky-colored crepe myrtle blooms filling the trees.

In late winter to early spring, the trees have a multitude of single pink blooms. Okame cherry is a very low maintenance flowering tree, as it is tolerant of heat, humidity, and drought.

Sure, our local trees aren’t as knock-down impressive as the southern live oak, but their potential and promise is the same: Each pinecone and acorn has a chance to grow its own way into another ...

Among them, the most outstanding for landscape use is Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana): the South’s premier shade tree. ... fragrant, white flowers spring through autumn.

Oak trees can live on average to 100 years and some over 200 years, ... The flowers are catkins, produced in spring which litter our drives, ... The southern red oak ...

If you head to Georgia, you will find sprawling southern live oak trees older than the Declaration of Independence. Often adorned in Spanish moss, the evergreen mammoths are featured in postcards ...

Charles Seabrook’s “Wild Georgia” column appears weekly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Dear Call Box: I used to live in Jacksonville, and I remember there was a massive tree called Treaty Oak where some kind of treaty was signed. I like history and would like to know about it. H.L., … ...