CLIPPING STEMS AND branches of flowering trees and shrubs to bring indoors and coax into an early spring is one of my favorite seasonal rhythms. By late February, most spring-blooming woody plants ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight. The arrival of ...

I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from before, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — It's shaping up to look like a snowy weekend — but after record-breaking temperatures in recent weeks, our buds might be confused. "We have a lot of spring bulbs coming up and blooming ...

Bloodroot and many other native, early spring flowers to Wisconsin are still over a month away from flowering – but in some parts of the country they already are! Looking at a national map of where ...

The winter is long, dark, wet, and cold. When the first buds of spring flowers begin to pop in March, it’s like a hit of dopamine, giving us all hope that the sun will come out again, someday. But ...

The answer is in your yard. Watch closely for the smallest hints, record what you find and advance the cause of science. Red maple (Acer rubrum) flowers before its leaf buds break. Some trees bear ...

For those of us who are becoming impatient as we look at the still dormant flower buds on bare branches of woody shrubs and don’t want to wait another few months until buds bloom outdoors, dormant ...