California’s ‘super bloom’ is just  pockets of flowers and annual shrubs due to a dry winter

Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California each spring to experience the stunning super bloom, but a dry winter has left many tourists disappointed. Park officials say visitors are not seeing fields of color, but report pockets of flowers and annual blooming shrubs. However, an unexpected rainstorm last … Read more

Delightful Daphnes: Plant these pretty shrubs and blossom will fill the air

Delightful Daphnes: Plant these pretty shrubs and blossom will fill the air Daphnes are a small but valuable genus of flowering shrubs you can grow in UK They come from Europe, North Africa and Asia with 2 species native to Britain The better known, Daphne mezereum, has fragrant, purple-pink spring flowers  By Nigel Colborn for … Read more

Monty Don explores the scented shrubs that have all chosen winter months as their time to shine 

There’s a small group of shrubs that have evolved to flower now, in the depths of winter, so as to catch the attentions of the very few insects that are out and about. The pollinator pond may be tiny right now but these plants are the biggest fish in it. None is better than winter … Read more

Surging bison population in Yellowstone are eating all the parks shrubs and grass

A surging bison population in Yellowstone National Park is doing serious and steady damage to the park’s biological diversity. A team of researchers from Oregon State University, Corvallis studied the animal’s effects on the park’s landscape, focusing primarily on the Lamar Valley, an area on the park’s eastern edge. The team analyzed data spanning more … Read more