Last night I went to the 40th anniversary celebration of the Texas Trees Foundation ... wherever a pecan tree stands. What gives? Are the trees raining sap? Why don’t I recall this ever happenin ...

Big Valley Pecan Farm in San Saba County ... 1930s—by 1974 he was the largest pecan grower in Texas, harvesting 4.5 million pounds of the tree nuts each year, according to the Texas State ...

No, that’s probably not tree sap, according to Katherine Smith, owner of Smith’s Gardentown in Wichita Falls, Texas. Smith said ... especially myrtles, pecan or oak trees.

Two beds and baths are featured within the house, which sits upon stilts that position it at tree canopy level and was in fact designed to wrap around and preserve a majestic 200-year-old pecan tree.

The Texas Legislature in 1919 declared pecans the official state tree. The Cockrell family began planting pecan trees in the 1960s. Today, about 40 employees work year-round to tend to the farm ...