Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Success with swamp milkweed, amazing flower pots and fewer apples are among the reports from local gardeners about this ...

As you prepare your gardens for winter, consider marking the location of late emerging perennials to avoid accidentally ...

Plenty of gardeners have heard of common milkweed. Many probably consider it the No. 1 monarch host plant, as well-known for its flowers as for its caterpillar-favorite leaves. While common milkweed ...

These amazing creatures spend their summers mating and pollinating in the southern parts of Canada and northern United States ...

A large group of gardeners and organizations are working on determining how best to grow native milkweed in the San Antonio area to help increase the population of monarch butterflies. Following is ...

My friend Diana, who has a degree in wildlife management, got into raising monarch butterflies back in 2020. She knew the statistics on the dwindling numbers of these gorgeous/iconic butterflies, did ...

As reported last week, zizotes, showy, antelope horn, green and butterfly weed native milkweeds all germinated well in the spring when seeded in containers. Unlike tropical milkweed, none of the ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley gardeners and farmers! I hope everyone survived the brutal heat wave last week. More normal temperatures have dominated this last week of June. Now we just need some rain!

Monarch butterflies have dropped sharply on P.E.I. this year, likely because of the dry summer conditions across the Island, ...

She spearheaded the creation of a native milkweed garden at the 32-acre Wawapek Preserve in Cold Spring Harbor.