We may be headed into fall colors, cooler weather and less daylight, but gardening doesn’t have to be all about preparing our ...

Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months. While just about any flower with nectar can ...

Whether you’re planting in your yard, on a windowsill, or in a public space, you can help create more bird-friendly habitats with native plants. Find the best plants for your area (and where to get ...

Native plants have established complex relationships with other ... While many homeowners have incorporated flowering plants in their landscapes to attract certain birds and butterflies, the habitat ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with ...

A roundup of local home and garden news, including how to use a native plant database to find plants that help butterflies and Gamble Garden’s announcement that their Spring Tour is canceled.

However, despite their beauty, butterfly bushes are known for being invasive and will often outperform and compete with ...

Butterflies, especially monarchs ... the beauty of your garden but also promoting ecological health. Native plants like Joe-Pye weed are adapted to local conditions, making them more resilient ...

The colorful array of butterflies and moths, including the iconic monarch, the swallowtails, tortoiseshells, and beautiful blues, are all dependent on very specific native plant species. Native plants ...

The TikToker also talks about how having different plants is important, as "they attract different types of pollinators" and "the butterflies absolutely love ... Adding more native plants to your yard ...

Its striking long-blooming flowers also foster the spread of a parasitic, contagious pest of the butterflies. Non-natives can also out-compete native plants that support the local ecosystem.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...