Long gone are the days when everyone ‘put the garden to bed’ in November, and rightly so, for winter can be glorious ...

And fall isn't the only season red oaks make a mess, either. During spring, oaks drop catkins: long clumps of flower clusters. It's fairly messy and terrible for allergies. Even though different types ...

Food is scarce in spring; there are no ripe berries or nuts as yet. The first green vegetation to appear on the forested landscape includes tender young shoots and leaves, aspen catkins, succulent ...

No plant heralds spring quite like pussy willow. The large flower buds burst open to expose the silky, silver-gray, furry catkins early in the spring before leaf emergence and while most other ...

The plants have both male flowers (which appear as golden catkins in the spring) and female flowers, which are small, red and unobtrusive. They are wind-pollinated, so you'll need two plants to ...

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Honeysuckle is evergreen or semi-deciduous so check the label if you are looking for year-round coverage. This bushy, evergreen shrub with wavy edged greenish gray leaves produces unusual silvery ...

So it’s easy to forget that late autumn (in fact, through till early spring) is also the time to plant bare-root plants. As ...

The spider’s hidey-hole, made of oak catkins and spider silk, was shaped something like half a walnut. Watching that spider grow, peering into her web to see what was left of the insects she’d ...

The temperatures are dropping, the trees are putting on their annual color show, and Halloween is less than two weeks away.

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...

Yet in indigenous cultures across the world, stories, rather than facts alone, helped people learn, and remember, real truths.” Her approach in this book, therefore, is to teach British children about ...