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Why do some trees keep their leaves into winter?
written by Sarah Dugan, Kroening Nature Center Naturalist After a particularly beautiful autumn for our local trees most of the leaves have fallen, with a few …
Get a live tree and plants for the holidays
The days are getting shorter and colder, and I am beginning to think we might actually be headed towards winter. Regardless of the weather, …
Holiday cacti and how to get them to bloom
Cacti are the best-known succulents. There are over 2000 species of cacti and all but one are native to the Americas. They grow from the Arctic Circle to the …
Where do bugs go in autumn?
Written by Rachel Putnam, Kroening Nature Center naturalist As the last flowers of autumn fade and the nights turn chilly, butterflies no longer visit gardens …
Time for Fall gardening
I have come to be more welcoming of autumn these years. In fact it has become my second favorite season, after spring. After the high heat and humidity of the …
Birds follow our Mississippi flyway
By Bronwyn Earthman Fall migration is underway, and the Mississippi flyway is a busy corridor for birds heading south for the winter. If this is the first …
Gotta love those Minnesota apples
September 1 marks the beginning of the meteorological Fall and September 22 is the autumnal equinox and the start of astronomical autumn. However …
The call of the cicada and other bugs
By Sarah Dugan Though the distinctive call of the loon has become emblematic of Minnesota nature, no soundtrack of our state would be complete without the …
Tending our urban trees
Minneapolitans love their urban forest, one of the grandest of any city in the nation. I cringed when I saw one of the last of our grand elm trees on the …