I hadn’t planted anything in my garden or home landscape for at least two weeks, so naturally, I had to visit my favorite garden center in search of something to plant in mid-October. While I ...

The catkin is the male bit. “One very interesting thing about oaks is that they have separate male and female flowers,” says Mario Vallejo-Marin, who studies plant evolution at the University ...

Climate change is distorting nature’s calendar, causing plants to flower early and animals ... Rainfall patterns influence catkin development. Trees need just the right amount of water during ...

Any thoughts? -- James Auter. ANSWER: There's a large outbreak now of pine catkin sawfly larvae (Xyela) in the New Orleans area. Reports are widespread on the north shore where pine trees are ...