Tick, tock. With every passing day, it seems as though another sign of spring is upon us. When a gentle breeze is blowing, the flowers of a hazel tree have a metronomic quality to them – wafting back ...

These golden catkins of a hazelnut tree have been blooming since late January. They are one of the earliest of the flowering trees. (Pat Munts / The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo The daffodils are ...

The glossy leaves smell like cinnamon and nutmeg, and the yellow bell-shaped flowers, which bloom in winter from early ...

Witch hazel, Hamamelis virginiana, is the New Hampshire Big Tree for November because curiously, it flowers now. While the tree resembles a shrub with multiple arching trunks, The American Forests' ...

Catkins "¦ I'm not sure what they remind me of. Something out of a Stephen King novel perhaps; banana curls; dancing ears of corn. When they move, they resemble the telltales of a sail that indicate ...