Yesterday! An early summer field trip, deep into a swamp in Allendale County, South Carolina, not too far from the Savannah River. It was almost noon, and the mixed clouds made it quite pleasant, not ...

If you are like most gardeners I know, you have admired and probably planted the orange butterfly weed, Ascepias tuberosa, that is commonly seen in flower along Oklahoma's summer roadways. I can't ...

Plant cultivars are natural variants of native plants that have been deliberately collected, selected, cross-bred or hybridized for desirable traits that can be maintained through propagation.

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monarch butterfly on a pink milkweed bloom - Annie Otzen/Getty Images Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Monarch caterpillar season has returned to Northeast Ohio, and this year our family has adopted 13 baby caterpillars, or “cats.” As they approach chrysalis stage, these very hungry ...

When oleander aphids infested tropical milkweed, monarch butterflies laid fewer eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars developing on those plants were slower to mature. Many gardeners will tell you ...

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 ...