Monet loved these summer flowers, and you will too.

In a recent discovery poised to enhance agricultural resilience, scientists have demystified the elaborate cold resistance mechanisms of the white water lily—a plant that flourishes in the frigid ...

Everyone is familiar with water lilies; they have round, floating leaves (lily pads) and elegant flowers. They are admired by most people and appreciated by small creatures such as damselflies and ...

White water lilies (Nymphaea odorata) are blooming spectacularly now, making local ponds worthy of a Monet painting. Each flower blossoms for only three days. On the first day, pollen-bearing insects ...

Sunny days and warmer temperatures greeted us as we passed the solstice and entered the new season. Nature is rapidly revealing the summer to us. Birds that returned from migration and sang on ...

With the water still high on the Mississippi River, including at my backwater cabin, things are not normal in terms of plants and aquatic critters I would usually see. Come to think of it, I am not ...

We carried the kayak 75 yards to the Goose Lake landing, less than an hour from Rochester. I really don't consider this area a lake, as it is connected directly to the largest river in America. But ...