Crimson jewels of the prairie, chokecherries are ripe now in northcentral Montana. The heart of Montana chokecherry country is Lewistown, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the annual ...

Chokecherries are blossoming, filling the air with a pleasant fragrance and attracting pollinators. Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana, is a small tree or shrub with an immense range, from the Atlantic to ...

Friends and I took a wonderful detour while biking to the beach last weekend. It was one of those first warm but crisp days of late summer. The land had shrugged off the deep, oppressive humidity of ...

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 ...

Late last winter the usual cow moose with two calves showed up in our yard. They ate every part of a flowering crab apple tree they could reach ... except for the south side. At the time, I just ...

Q: I think I've read every posting on the Hortiscope website, but I still have a few questions. I live in Ohio and just purchased clumps of prunus v. schuber. I do not have a green thumb and have no ...

Despite today's Arctic temperatures, I feel winter beginning to ease her grip. I'm looking forward to the spring thaw, rushing water leaping and dancing down the prairie hills and coulees. I'll soon ...

Q: Are the berries in the photo chokecherries? We’d like to make jelly, but want to be sure. — Shelly H. A: I’m glad you asked, because the berries aren’t chokecherries, but are instead the fruits of ...

Linda Hidalgo chuckles when she recalls teaching her kids at young ages how to scout chokecherries. “They would shout, ‘There’s some!’ And we would pull over and let them out of the car to gather ...

LOOMIS — In all the years Melanie Refior has picked chokecherries, she has never seen the plants produce like they have last year. “The old-timers had a saying that if the wild fruit is plentiful, ...

Late last summer, during a long weekend of hiking and mountain biking around Winthrop, my wife, Martha, and I took a swim in one of the local lakes to cool off before embarking on the four-hour drive ...