After a storm, it is common for people claiming to be tree specialists to show up at your door offering services,” according to the Arbor Day Foundation. “Unfortunately, many of ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this ...

City of Waco offices will be closed Thursday for the Juneteenth holiday. Residents with Thursday curbside trash collection ...

Retired wildlife biologist Tami Gingrich details the unique qualities of the cottonwood tree, highlighting their showy seed ...

An ant walks through cottonwood fluff on the forest floor along the Bow River south of Carseland, Ab., on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. Mike Drew/Postmedia Article content ...

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood trees this time of year. It’s quite ...

Personally, nothing in my over the counter arsenal of allergy pills has done much at all in terms of relief from the Cottonwood explosion. It's incredibly hard to function normally when all you want ...

English Ivy (Hedera helix) This popular low-growing plant seems like a nice, innocuous groundcover, but it’s an aggressive grower that can spread 50 feet tall and 80 feet wide.

The wind-blown seeds of the eastern cottonwood tree allow it to establish in disturbed uplands. Submitted photo; On Nature column: Wind-blown seeds allow eastern cottonwood trees to proliferate.

According to Kathleen Cain, author of “The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion,” a single Eastern cottonwood can produce as many as 30 million seeds in one season.

The Populus’s claims go a step further, said Joseph Romm, a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media, and author of ...