If you walked on Presque Isle State Park in late May up through early June, what you saw was not snow. Nor was it cotton balls falling from the sky. It was our own special warm-weather snow, the ...

Trees are smarter than you think, and the evidence is found in their unique ways they disperse their seeds. Cottonwood trees release white tufts that float in the air – a dreamy sight until you ...

There is an abundance of green flakes coating the sidewalks and cars right now, and it seems hard to avoid the white cottony tufts in the air lately. There's green film on the waters along the shores ...

It may look like it’s snowing in parts of Montana right now, even when the sun is shining. That’s because white and fluffy cottonwood seedlings are floating around at this time of the year. The little ...

I step into the snow patch and my feet break the crust of the snow with every step. Around me are several tall cottonwoods so I’m checking the ground for branches to harvest cottonwood buds after a ...

You might have seen it – seemingly everywhere in some places – around central Ohio: Little bits of "fluff," white as snow, drifting down from the heavens or swirling in a light breeze. The “fluff” is ...

Q: We have a cottonwood in our yard, and we noticed last week that a few branches are dying. The tree is approximately 25-30 years old so I can’t imagine that the tree is dying. We were wondering if ...

Q. I have two cottonwoods in Belen. I read why they shed but it seems to be mine are the only ones. I water all my trees three times a week; also, six or seven years ago my trees were hit with aphids ...