Many gardeners have hopes of getting lots of pecans from their trees. Unfortunately, they are often disappointed. Pecans growing in yards do not always produce nuts. Insects and diseases may ...
Texas settlers looked around them and saw, on the banks of almost every river and stream, pecan groves that seemed to stretch into infinity. Without compunction they chopped the trees down to grow ...
This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1915 Paul Popenoe gave 26 photos of giant trees to National Geographic. One of them was this shot mailed from San ...
Just after midnight on Sept. 27, the fast-moving Hurricane Helene wiped out thousands of pecan trees and tens of thousands of pounds of pecans from Buck Paulk’s 4,100-acre pecan orchard in south ...