Farm strawberry-picking gives a friendly reminder that nature’s wild fruit will begin soon. Most raspberries, blackberries ...

The stroll was peaceful and the birds were singing.

For the third year in a row, I have found a beautiful queen moss/large carder bee in the polytunnel in my garden in mid-April ...

These sticky, prickly little nuisances are called burs (alternatively spelled as "burrs"), and they're actually seed pods, similar to seed and pollen cones.

In female cones, the emission of 1,3-octadiene peaked at milder, attractive levels that beckoned pollen-bearing weevils fleeing the male cones.

Special events this weekend include the Colossal Coney Contest, entertainment at the Crane Trust, fun activities for all ages ...

Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her — a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight— but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet ...

Note that cones get pollinated in the spring, but the cone and seeds don’t fully develop until the autumn of the next year. Most cones are almost as wide as they are long. The big exception is our ...

These trees have both female and male cones. The female cone bears the seed, the embryos of the trees. They contain seeds. The male cones produce pollen. Other content from the research magazine ...