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, ...

Those fuzzy little faces are starting to show up.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The only thing left for Catkins to achieve is winning the long overdue group 1, right? Well not exactly so. While the ...

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 ...

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 --- ...

Those of us who regularly walk in northland forests find that going out now, in late May, we are surrounded by happenings. Each day while walking, I note sights or sounds and think, “that wasn’t here ...

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 ...

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 ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. My live oak trees have been dropping tons of greenish-brown things over ...

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 ...