Native Tree Society BBS

Will, thanks so much for taking the time to send this detailed explanation of the seven sisters oak. I get it now. Larry, thanks for the website address, but does it matter that the tree is not in Louisiana? I appreciate the input from both of you. Also, I plan to start measuring these live oaks. Be...

Will, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE EDUCATION!!!!! I am so appreciative that you took the time and trouble to explain that to me--and the photo was priceless in illustrating what you wrote. Now, I actually "get" it. Also I will start measuring my live oaks. I am embarrassed to say I don't know how ...

Larry, I have had limited time to check out the ENTS site and just discovered this p.m. that you have made the live oaks your project. I enjoyed looking at many of your photos on the site. I thought I had saved that article on the seven sisters oak, but can't find it. BUT, I do believe that YOU do k...

Wow!! I had a patient just outside of the Walkaih Bluff park--can't wait to get back down there. There is some controversy about the Seven Sisters oak.I recall an article that I read in the Times-Picayune that it WAS thought to be seven trees that had grown together, hence the name, BUT a core sampl...

Larry, I also live in south Mississippi now. Moved from N.O. to a home that I had purchased before the storm in Poplarville. I bet you are familiar with the seven sisters oak in Mandeville. If not, you should be. Let me know if you'd like more info about it. It is supposedly the oldest live oak in t...

Hello, I'm Brenda, a Registered Nurse and lifelong lover of trees. My earliest memories are of playing aroung the "big tree"--a live oak on a street corner in Mobile, Alabama--in the mid 1950s while waiting for my father. I earned the name "Tree Lady" by purchasing and giving away, sometimes even pl...