Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chokecherry berries darken to deep purple by September, just as its leaves are beginning to turn shades of gold and orange. Those ...

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Many Minnesota lakes are considered warm-water lakes, so their surface temperatures can be expected to rise to 80 degrees or warmer during the last week of July and into early August. That can make ...

Alaskans have a love-hate relationship with mayday trees. The mayday tree (Prunus padus), aka European bird cherry, and its cousin the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) have historically been popular ...

"I’ve got to get back here and cut down those chokecherry trees,” I mused to myself. Frozen leaves crackled loudly under my shuffling feet and birch trees hung leafless and barren against a still-gray ...

Q: We have had our chokecherry tree for three years. It has been growing and doing great. This year, the branches are bare for the most part. However, new leaves are starting to appear from the trunk.

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It’s a beast. It’s a bully. And its time is up, forest experts and community members say. The ornamental chokecherry tree, invasive in Alaska, has gotten so bad in some areas that the state used grant ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Those looking for a spring-flowering native shrub that ...