Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your garden and ...

If you have a green thumb, it may be the perfect time to welcome back pollinators with your own bee-friendly garden. Filling your garden with native plants that attract the vital pollinators can help ...

This native shrub has beautiful flowers, stunning foliage, and delicious berries. Birds not only visit for the fruit but also ...

For some people, going a whole month without mowing their lawn can seem like a wild idea. When participating in No Mow May, you and your neighbors will have the most positive experience by following ...

So far, this dry spring is turning out to be a mixed blessing. On one hand, the dry, warm weather is allowing gardeners to get an early head start on their gardens. It’s so early in fact, gardeners ...

As spring nears and the weather warms up , nature’s greatest pollinators – bees – tend to come out of hibernation. North Carolina is home to around 500 species of bees, according to Stan Schneider, a ...

Here in the Hood River Valley in northern Oregon, and all throughout the prime Pacific Northwest cherry-growing regions, the cool spring weather has often kept the bees — billions of which are brought ...

News Pacific NW In cool spring, bees struggle to pollinate Northwest cherry crop May 13, 2022 Updated Fri., May 13, 2022 at 9:42 p.m. One honey bee nestles in a flower and another is in flight at Hood ...