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

A brain teaser challenged users to spot a hidden animal among dense tree branches, sparking lively discussions and mixed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Trails followed his close fourth in the Cox Plate with a hard-fought win in the Mackinnon Stakes. Catkins prevented ...

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.

Christmas is coming, and children’s non-fiction books are getting fatter, with a rush of new titles covering everything from garden slugs to the history of aviation. To some young readers, the sheer ...

Organised by the Minehead and Coast Development Trust, Somerset Wildlife Trust, and Exmoor National Park, the event aims to foster a love for the outdoors. Set for Saturday, October 26, the day ...