The native willow oak (Quercus phellos) is very similar in size, shape and growth rate to the last two species. It is an excellent tree for the entire New Orleans area and, like the Shumard and ...

Sand live oak is a tough tree that with proper pruning can be very wind resistant. The Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii) is a fast-growing oak in the red oak group. To make a wind resistant tree ...

Shumard oak, black oak, scarlet oak, and southern/northern red oak. Red oak is grown in parks and large gardens as a specimen tree and the smaller related scarlet and pin oak are planted in ...

The Quercus Shumardii, commonly known as the Shumard Oak, is a large Texas Native tree with a beautiful orange to deep red fall color, depending on the soil and weather. Relatively fast growing ...

They are long-lived grand trees. But there are other equally stately and beautiful species that should be used more often, such as white oak, swamp chestnut oak (also called basket oak), Shumard ...

Question for Dan Gill: Recently I had a large Shumard oak tree planted by a local nursery. In the process of planting, they damaged a small section (five inches by six inches) of the bark ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — On this Earth Day, the Peoria Park District is digging in to make a difference with its annual community tree planting. Staff and volunteers planted three oak trees at ...

Nowhere is the action busier than around native Quercus, or oak trees, a keystone genus teeming ... ‘baskets’; the fast-growing Q. shumardii (Shumard and Q. nutallii (Nuttall), both ...

It is a slow growing tree but worth the wait. The Shumard Oak and Nuttall Oak are fast growers. The Shumard Oak is the fastest of all the oaks, adding 3 to 4 feet a year to its height and breadth.

Texas oak trees are experiencing something called a ... Texas and up my way in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is going to be Shumard red oak, Texas red oak, live oak. Now, there’s plenty of others ...

Sarah Cooper, right, tosses a tub of shumard oak tree seedlings onto a trailer in March 2025 at George O. White State Forest Nursery, in Licking, Missouri. The tractor takes the seedlings to a ...