If there is one leaf shape everyone knows, it’s the maple leaf. Botanically, it’s known as palmately lobed. Just the other day, I was ogling some Japanese maples at a nursery while lamenting how ...

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Before I arrived at Quercus, a resort in the 129-person town of Gay, Georgia, I thought I had a decent idea of what I could expect. I was prepared to compare it to other high-end Southern ...

As you wander beneath Marin County’s stately white oaks, such as valley and blue oaks, be aware some little troublemakers are on the move. The Mediterranean oak borer (Xyleborus monographus), a beetle ...

Quercus managing director Jon Butler is stepping down after 10 years in the role. His last day will be 6th June 2025. The division’s imprints Quercus Fiction, Quercus Non-Fiction, Arcadia, riverrun, ...

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In a unanimous decision by the LA County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, an oak tree steeped in history and admired by the Stevenson Ranch community has been designated a historic landmark. The tree ...

It began its life about the time of the Mayflower’s journey to America. After 400 years, it thrives on the edge of Pico Canyon Park in unincorporated Santa Clarita Valley, saved from being knocked ...

Taylor Matthew Close, 23, of Red Bluff was arrested by a Red Bluff police officer April 19 on Cabernet Court in Red Bluff and booked into the Tehama County Jail on suspicion of inflict corporal injury ...

There are easily hundreds of truly excellent, some might even say great trees in Los Angeles. Are these 10 the very best? Well, that’s totally subjective. For our story “The greatest trees of Los ...