Garden: Time to bring houseplants indoors for the winter Some pussy willow varieties feature pink catkins, such as Salix chaenomeloides ‘Mt Asama’.The rubykins variety of pussy willow (Salix ...

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Willow "fedges": A fedge is a composite word combining fence and hedge. This is a structure that looks more like a fence, but, like a hedge, is made up of living plants that continue to grow over ...

Willow bark comes from the branches of 2- to 3-year-old willow trees. Willow trees and shrubs grow worldwide, except in Australia and Antarctica. Varieties of willow bark include: ...

In late June and early July, groups of yellow-crowned night herons will begin to leave their New Orleans nests. First they ...

An interdisciplinary research team involving the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the Universities of Rostock, Munich and Vienna has discovered that willow leaves ...

Because willow oak produces an acorn crop almost every year, this oak is important for wildlife food production. In turn, this makes it a great species to plant along the margins of fluctuating ...

Basketmaker Sandra Kehoe has planted 9,000 willow plants in upstate New York that Fraser will help harvest this winter, and a farm across the river from Fraser in Gill, Massachusetts, planted some ...

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The more dense shrub varieties of pussy willow also provide good cover and nesting sites for a variety of bird species. Be warned, however, that deer can also find the branches of pussy willow tasty.

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 ...