CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Freezing temperatures, ice, and snow are challenges for plants and animals during winter in northeast Ohio. Unlike animals, plants are rooted in place. How do they survive?

Several times this winter, while the ground was snow ... which includes Columbus and most of central Ohio. Mulching perennial plants with no more than 3 inches of a mulch such as wood chips ...

For fish, wildlife, and even plants, the all-too frequent wintery blasts are just part of their genetic survival strategy.

These are just a few of the things we get to look forward to throughout the long winter months here in Northeast Ohio. And with the ... blues — a bouquet of flowers. To capture the effects ...

OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. When we are living through the darkest, coldest weeks of winter, it is sometimes ...