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Alaskans have a love-hate relationship with mayday trees. The mayday tree (Prunus padus), aka European bird cherry, and its cousin the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) have historically been popular ...

Many Minnesota lakes are considered warm-water lakes, so their surface temperatures can be expected to rise to 80 degrees or warmer during the last week of July and into early August. That can make ...

Tricia Howe, a volunteer working at the Aug. 19, 2023,"weed smackdown" at Anchorage's Tikishla Park, pulls another felled European bird cherry tree to put on a pile near the park's softball field.

Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana, is a small shrub or tree found near Montana's rivers and streams. It is one of our most important edible native plants. The scientific name for the genus, Prunus, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. By the time the solstice sun peaks, trees and shrubs are seeding up. At ...

During these days of stay at home COVID-19 guidelines, we have had plenty of time to enjoy our backyard, flowers, trees, and birds. It is good to find something positive to focus on throughout these ...

We’ll soon be busy pruning, planting and weeding, with less time to think and plan. Because none of us are ever really “done” landscaping, March is a great month to plan where to add landscape shrubs ...