Dear California transplants and any other newcomers to Oklahoma from west of the foothills of the Rockies: Those big white fluffs floating everywhere? Pollen. Wait’ll you see the bees. We kid!

Dear Master Gardener: I have lots of cottonwood fluff in my yard and caught the neighborhood children lighting some of it on fire on their driveway. This looks quite dangerous. Is cottonwood fluff ...

Cotton-like puffs carry cottonwood seeds back to earth near Scudder Pond in Bellingham. The cottonwoods and other trees of the willow family release their seeds in a show that can resemble springtime ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- It can be annoying, but cottonwood fluff should be properly disposed of and not lit on fire. The Pullman Fire Department is issuing a warning urging people to not burn the fluff away ...

Cottonwood trees are dropping their seeds all over southeast Michigan, collecting on sidewalks, playgrounds, and, unfortunately, air conditioning units. The little white puffs that send seeds drifting ...

On Osage Street in Coon Rapids, Mary Weise deals with cottonwood every year. 'Fills your whole yard. Fills your air conditioner," said Weise. She also knows it's combustible. "It can start a fire," ...

There is an abundance of green flakes coating the sidewalks and cars right now, and it seems hard to avoid the white cottony tufts in the air lately. There's green film on the waters along the shores ...

At least two Twin Cities area fire departments are saying that the fluffy and "extremely combustible" white stuff that has been falling from cottonwood trees of late is keeping their crews busy.

This week's column includes questions and answers from years past. The responses are from Curtis Smith, who used to write the Yard and Garden column. Answer (by Curtis Smith): Male cottonwood trees ...

You might have seen it – seemingly everywhere in some places – around central Ohio: Little bits of "fluff," white as snow, drifting down from the heavens or swirling in a light breeze. The “fluff” is ...

Garden and yard things happen so fast in Alaska’s short season that I often find myself having to write about things that have already happened. Bear with me. Take, for example, the fact that there ...