Locating grouse during December can be difficult since the birds are usually concentrated in small areas. Once found they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you’ve been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you’ve come across a patch of forest floor that made it feel like you were walking on marbles. If either of ...