In the winter, when I’m less distracted by other plants, I’m struck by just how much Spanish moss we have in the Lowcountry. It’s hard to find a spreading live oak that isn’t draped with long, ...

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 ...

EAST TEXAS - A lady from Huntington called me this week complaining of Spanish moss in her oaks. She’s lived at her residence for over 20 years and this year was the first year that she found Spanish ...

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.

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 ...

It's spooky, romantic, swaying, and quintessentially southern: Spanish moss is a plant shrouded in mystery. What follows is "Spanish Moss 101," a brief course on this fascinating epiphyte. (Don't ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Spanish moss is not Spanish, but it was almost French—and these are just a few of the secrets the moss, that’s not even really a moss, has been hiding in the swamps of ...

Few sights are more evocative of the Lowcountry than a live oak tree draped with beardlike garlands of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). Over the past decade or so, a more compact relative of ...

Question. Azaleas in our yard are starting to bloom, but the plants are large and lanky. When can they be pruned, and how much? Answer. Enjoy late winter and early spring blooms, and when they are ...