Butterfly weed is an amazing plant, but its aggressive nature can sometimes make it a nuisance in the garden if you don't ...

It is also a host plant for monarch butterflies, meaning they lay their eggs on the butterfly weed, and the plant's leaves provide food for the caterpillars. Despite its amazing qualities ...

It is also a host plant for monarch butterflies, meaning they lay their eggs on the butterfly weed, and the plant's leaves provide food for the caterpillars. Despite its amazing qualities, butterfly ...

DM / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0 Milkweed is famously the host plant for the monarch butterfly, but it also attracts plenty of other butterfly species, as well as beneficial predators. Its asclepias family ...

If you want to reap the benefits of growing a milkweed plant in your butterfly garden, consider all the facts. Ask yourself what type of soil, lighting, and drainage your current site features.

However, not all milkweed plants are alike in characteristics, color, and optimum growing conditions. Some species are more suited than others to act as host plants for specific insects. If you are ...

Although it has “weed” in its name, milkweeds are not weeds at all, but very important wildflowers. Milkweeds are host plants for the beautiful and endangered monarch butterfly. To help the monarch ...

This past week the United States Department of Fish and Wildlife revisited the situation of the monarch butterfly. In the ...

This is a stunning plant for hanging baskets, window boxes, containers or in a rock garden; it attracts bees and other ...

In the same year that Butterfly Conservation declared a ‘Butterfly Emergency’, local school children and community groups are growing Dog Violets, the primary food source of the rare Peal ...

The trustees of the quaint Baiting Hollow Library on Sound Avenue hope library users will also spend time outside the 82-year ...