This classic flower gives butterflies nutritious nectar and ample shelter, making it a great option for a butterfly garden.

A garden can do more than look pretty—it can work like a living support system for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.

If you are planting milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, you are already ahead of the game. But even the most well-meaning gardeners can make critical mistakes when planting milkweed that may send ...

The plant most gardeners buy to save the monarch butterfly is quietly making things worse. Every spring, nurseries and ...

On June 8, more than 250 milkweed plants were planted by Three Rivers Land Trust staff and volunteers to improve habitat quality and food resources for local monarch butterfly populations. Several ...

Milkweeds are not the most spectacular of flowering perennials, but they can look highly effective as fillers and textural foils in plant combinations. They are a must in any sunny herbaceous garden ...

Most gardeners recognize milkweed immediately as a butterfly attracter, but there’s a complex community that revolves around this prolific plant that extends well beyond the monarch. Milkweed may ...

Monarchs, as caterpillars, prefer the leaves of milkweed. Milkweed produces glycoside toxins to deter animals from eating them, monarch have evolved immunity to these toxins. When they feed, monarch ...

Thousands of seeds are floating across fields this month, like tiny paratroopers dangling from silky parachutes. They're milkweed seeds, launched from ripe seed pods. If they land on target, new ...

Butterflies Need More Than Flowers and What They're Really Looking For Might Surprise You ...

Fewer monarch butterflies were spotted this spring, even as milkweed classes helped boost habitat and support future ...