Welcome!! This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment.... Flowers and trees are blooming earlier. Is it because ...

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A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

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Trees with white flowers offer a striking beauty to any landscape. The delicate petals of these trees provide a peaceful ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.

For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting plants, known as ephemerals, grow in ...

Many kinds of small flowering trees help brighten our landscapes from late winter through the spring season. Coming into bloom now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring flowering trees, the ...