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 ...

Many people are familiar with the well-known weeping willow, but there are lots of different willows. Willows are most commonly found growing in moist, sunlit meadows and are easily identified by ...

Trees stood outside for the entire winter. Even though the winter of 2023-24 was much milder than usual, they did deal with some cold times. For about 10 days in January, the temperature dipped into ...

Those fuzzy little faces are starting to show up.

Beijing - Right now there are lots of white wispy things floating in the sky like snow. They're called catkins and come from willow trees. Many people find them annoying and now the municipal ...

A woman braves catkins in the air in Beijing, April 8, 2016. Tourists visiting the capital will experience a "snowing scene" in the following days as the pussy willow from the blossoming poplar and ...

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 ...

I have fond memories of pussy willow that mom innocently planted and that dad, in typical fashion, ignored. That little bush then grew massive and encompassed a large area of a rather small backyard.

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The whole weeping willow tree just glows golden as spring tells nature to ...

Willow catkins are accumulated on a street in Beijing on April 15, 2015. [Photo by Gong Yingchun/China.org.cn] The Liaowang Institute has published a new research article on Beijing's poplar catkins, ...