Alder trees are not disappointing this year; they are putting on their usual excellent display of catkins. In a simple world, the flowers of all Irish plants fall into two distinct groups: those that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I love this time of year because of all the signs of spring that pop up: take a walk in the woods and you are bound to find some ...

Those strange pendulous, squiggly, worm-like structures dangling from branches of many trees drop and cover sidewalks and driveways and generally make a mess especially after a strong wind or rain --- ...

Trees spent the winter standing in all the weather while we took shelter. Whether it was a couple of feet of snow, temperatures far into the negative numbers for long periods of time or strong winds, ...

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a catkin! A what? Yes, the catkins are coming, but what are they? Think you’ve never seen a catkin? You’re probably wrong. That’s because they ...

As we move into April, we are in a fickle month. During these 30 days, we may receive cold and snow, as in 2013; rain, including thunder showers; or it's dry and quite warm, 70 or 80 degrees.

Winter is a good time of year to find some species of plants that are usually obscured by the thick green foliage of their neighbors. One such plant, the speckled alder (Alnus incana), becomes much ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The white alder is an inhabitant of ‘the other California,’ that small ...

THE fallen thrush’s nest lay under a tall, dense conifer, its summer job done. Still a thing of beauty, this tidy structure of twigs, grass and moss, cemented together with an inner lining of mud, ...

Winter is a good time of year to find some species of plants that are usually obscured by the thick green foliage of their neighbors. One such plant, the speckled alder (Alnus incana), becomes much ...