For those of you who aren’t aware that live oak trees drop their leaves every year despite the fact that we describe them as evergreen, look at the ground now. If you have live oak trees ...

Leaf-feeding insects are a part of life in the Peninsula's rich horticultural landscape. The region's mild Mediterranean ...

Some leaves don’t seem to be leaves at all, having become flower petals, thorns, or the spines on a cactus. But even an ordinary oak leaf, dandelion leaf, and grass blade differ in size ...

Now that the season has changed and we find ourselves on the approach to winter, we are reminded of an annual problem: the mess trees can leave in our yards. For the neat and tidy, the urge to ...