The winds of Hurricane Ida have significantly damaged the iconic oak trees of Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana, where productions ranging from “Interview With the Vampire” to Beyoncé’s “Deja Vu” ...
Charles Durand, a sugar cane farmer, planted Oak and Pine Alley, a magnificent stretch of trees in St. Martinville, Louisiana, two hundred years ago. The setting became the backdrop for a famous story ...
As you can see in the image below, the structure of the main plantation building withstood the powerful winds of Hurricane Ida, but the old Oak trees in front of the building that gives the location ...
Carya is a North American genus of tree first recognized by English naturalist Thomas Nuttall in his work “The Genera of North American Plants” (1818). The ancient Greek meaning of Carya, is “nut.” ...
There are structures in New Orleans that are objectively beautiful, environmentally beneficial and have stood for hundreds of years, so intrinsic to the landscape that sometimes you hardly notice them ...