As the days grow longer and the air warms up, nature is bursting back to life. Even before their leaves return, trees produce delicate, fuzzy structures known as catkins. These tiny, downy threads, ...

Last year was a mast year for acorns. They were plentiful and everywhere. This spring, I've noticed that the oak pollen ...

Catkins and cones are the blooms of trees and shrubs whose flowers are sorted in a binary fashion—male and female. They are the quiet pleasure of those who notice botanical details, and they reward ...

One of the most reassuring of all natural phenomena is the appearance of catkins. They may be present all year round in their embryonic form, but it is in this season, when the garden is at its most ...

With the glowing red ball of sun ready to set, I walked through a savanna in Lake County to discover a multibranched, 6-foot-tall shrub covered with many silvery balls as soft — and about the same ...

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 --- ...

Wolsingham, Weardale: Pause for a moment on these colourful stamens and the method of wind pollination seems incredible. Somehow, it works From a distance, the pavement seemed to be crawling with ...

The poplar trees down the street are starting to look like tree-versions of their close cousins the pussy willows. Little fuzzy catkins that look a lot like a typical pussy willow have opened up all ...

Catkins "¦ I'm not sure what they remind me of. Something out of a Stephen King novel perhaps; banana curls; dancing ears of corn. When they move, they resemble the telltales of a sail that indicate ...

March is the month when things fall from the sky in Memphis. And a lot of it lands on our cars. Green-yellow pollen coats our cars and rooftops and triggers allergies. Birds bomb those drivers crazy ...

A viral clip online likely shows the catkins, or flower spikes, of poplar trees covering cars in northern China, not a “rain of worms” as social media posts and some news reports have claimed, experts ...

As the days grow longer and the air warms up, nature is bursting back to life. Even before their leaves return, trees produce delicate, fuzzy structures known as catkins. These tiny, downy threads, ...