I had already thrown one homemade holiday wreath in the trash and was about to toss another when a cotton pod saved me. Nothing was coming together with my plan of making a wreath of all natural ...

Now my cotton is beginning to pop. I wasn’t sure it would ripen before a big freeze but when I returned home this afternoon, three pods -- bolls -- had opened. The cotton is glossy, soft ...

You know that the seeds are mature when a silk cotton pod dries up and cracks open, revealing a mass of silky cotton fibres inside. Quite often, these will drop to the ground where you can pick ...