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Dear Gardener: My Live Oaks are dropping leaves in early spring; tree looks sparse and sickly?

As spring comes to many parts of Texas, so does an interesting phenomenon.

Live Oaks, also known as evergreen oaks, are beautiful and stately trees in the landscape. They do drop leaves as new leaves emerge in the spring. This is NORMAL and NOT a disease problem.

These trees may appear sickly when temperatu…

101 N. Rice
PO Box 833
Hamilton, TX 76531
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