This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...

Consider adding more green to your winter landscape by adding more evergreen trees and shrubs to your landscape. Evergreen conifer trees include many species of pine, fir and spruce. Evergreen ...

Driving on Vermont’s interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular intervals along the road. With the stark landscape providing better ...

If needed, extensive pruning should be done to spring-flowering trees and shrubs soon after they finish flowering. Prune summer-flowering trees and shrubs in mid- to late-winter. Remove dead growth ...

University of Minnesota Extension If you traveled through rural Minnesota last winter, you probably realized some of the benefits of windbreaks and living snow ...

Gold is delicate, and rare, in winter when sunlight is scarce and the promise of spring is impossible to yet imagine. Across the frozen dirt road, wind rifles the clear plastic tarps covering ...