The rot runs deep in George Dawes Green’s long-awaited fourth novel. Credit...Pablo Amargo Supported by By Sarah Weinman Around these parts, the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an ...

Hurricane Isaias left his mark on our Arboretum grounds last week; an eighty-year-old oak in the picnic area toppled, destructing parts of the picnic shelter, glass greenhouse and tool shed roof. No ...

It's actually neither Spanish nor a moss. Spanish moss is one of those plants everyone knows at least one fun fact about. For me, growing up visiting my aunt and uncle on St. Simons Island, Georgia, I ...

Q. Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their limbs. I have several questions about this gray plant. (1) How ...

Few sights are more evocative of the South than a spreading live oak tree festooned with Spanish moss -- “hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards,” as Mark Twain wrote in Huckleberry Finn.

Perhaps you’ve gazed up at Sunshine State trees and noticed long, curly strands of organic material dangling and swaying in the breeze. Maybe you’ve wondered, “What are those scraggly strings?” Or ...

We're all familiar with Spanish moss, which grows long on the branches of live oaks and other trees. But these days, you might notice a different kind of moss clinging in tight clumps to tree limbs.