botany

ELLICOTTVILLE — Nannen Arboretum members celebrated Arbor Day Friday with the planting of a new American larch tree. It’s called Tamarack (larix laric...

PITTSFORD (AP) — Officials in a western New York town are bidding a sad farewell to an iconic 200-year-old tree. A public ceremony is planned Monday e...

After a mostly dismal month for local maple syrup production in March, producers are riding out as many days as they can in April. A survey of three C...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Common Council approved several items Wednesday to begin work for spring clean-up in the city. MAD Property Management of Sa...

Mary Lu Wells, a master gardener volunteer with the Allegany County Cooperative Extension, writes: It is almost time for those woodland flowers, the s...

If you own land and plant food plots — or simply are an avid hunter — you must pay attention to whitetail deer’s need for security. Just as we as huma...

More than just syrup: maple sap is used to make the flavored waters, wine, doughnuts, and more, all available as samplesat Sprague's Maple Farm Saturd...

Flora and fauna enthusiasts may know that in order to attract native wildlife and insects to their property, they have to lure the creatures in with n...

Hints of impending spring weather might stir a desire to grow plants even in people not usually drawn in that direction. If you are one of them, yet y...

We're coming up on cherry blossom festivals, tulip time and lilac season. Here's a look at some of the places that celebrate spring flowers with festi...

It’s early March and the maple trees are tapped for gathering their thin, clear sap. It looks exactly like water, but when tasted one can just detect ...

PORTVILLE — Maple syrup production so far this season has been interesting, according to Randy Sprague, owner of Sprague’s Maple Farms. “We started ea...

Time is pulling its usual tricks and rushing on by at breakneck speed. I can’t believe it’s deep into February and on the 22nd I’ll be 29 years old. …...

January. The bone-aching cold and snow had left temporally, replaced by relatively warm temperatures. This brought on an attack of Saturday cabin feve...

The wood stove had been stuffed full the night before, the mixture of cherry and beech burning brightly and hot. But during the long, icy night it had...

A long hunting season has come and gone. Hours and hours have been spent in scouting, hanging stands, traveling and freezing to death. There have been...

As our revered Christmas trees are down to their last days standing — in most cases — in our living rooms and parlors, we thought we’d take a final lo...

Are poinsettias really poisonous? Are snowflakes really pure as the driven snow? Does feasting really put on the pounds? Sure as sugarplums, myths and...