Change is coming to Alaska’s plants, animals, insects and microbes, and gardening practices will need to change too.

7-19-12 Great gardening - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

On another year, Christy might just now be finishing up the harvest. But today, the only flowers left from this season are stored in a walk-in cooler.

There’s little relief from the daytime heat in the forecast for the rest of the holiday weekend.

These tiny, black, thread-like pests dig into plants and like to hang about in gangs, which is why you see so many of them. It is as if they want to be as annoying as possible.