This year, however, the shrubbery part of this wetland is glowing red. So, I finally risked pulling over and getting out, and ...

Want to liven up your winter landscape? If these dreary, winter days lack color and interest in your garden, consider planting winterberry. While their bright-red berries are well known as a festive ...

Last summer, I delighted in watching my robin friends use our raspberry bushes like runways. As one swooped in to gobble up a berry that seemed almost too big for its beak, another was departing the ...

While I haven’t conducted a scientifically robust study, it seems to me that the winterberry berries are particularly abundant this year. I’m noticing them in profusion along the wetland edges in my ...

“Darkness comes swiftly in the Long Night Moon of December. At the end of this twenty-first day of the month, this shortest day of the year, this time when, in other ages, men lit bonfires to ...

Legend says that during the dark days around the winter solstice, ancient cultures gathered the evergreen leaves of holly with its red berries to add lightness to their homes. Celtic folklore speaks ...

While I haven’t conducted a scientifically robust study, it seems to me that the winterberry berries are particularly abundant this year. I’m noticing them in profusion along the wetland edges in my ...