I’ve seen a few daffodil plantings blooming this spring because of our unusual warm weather. There is another plant, the ...

In a stunning display of fire and ice, a new video shot on Friday shows hikers walking in the snow-covered ground set beside an erupting Mount Etna in Italy.

A new publication co-authored by John Ziker (Department of Anthropology) and Karl Mertens (Ph.D. candidate in ecology, ...

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

Smaller mammals like squirrels, foxes, snowshoe hares, and more must go through a series of changes in the fall in order to prepare for winter. Some of ...

Thursday's and Friday's snow may be the last we see of the white stuff for awhile, as the mid-Willamette Valley returns to ...

Sometimes by this time in February, the hellebores planted many years ago in a flower bed are showing buds, but that hasn’t ...

Each year, a variety of establishments attempt to make news by predicting annual garden trends. I’m conflicted over these reports because, on the one hand, they are fun ways to ...

Hellebores, witch hazels, and snowdrops are three plants that love the cold weather and offer up blooms to brighten up the ...

Spring has sprung! As winter has started fading away and the days have grown longer, nature is beginning to awaken for spring ...

Uno Lillberg got in a snow drift with his car on Monday to avoid hitting a horse and disabled it so bad he had to be towed home. It is very bad turning out as the roads have been scraped and there is ...

It may still be winter, but under the snow and ice and beneath the sodden blanket of last autumn’s leaves,  the first signs of life are ...