"Congratulations! Such a great feeling." Homeowner shares stunning photos of long-awaited visitors to backyard garden: 'It's ...

Petersen noted that while mowing might seem counterintuitive, overall environmental management sometimes means cutting plants ...

Beetles are fascinating, but there are so many that it is difficult to know where to begin – more than 350,000 species that ...

Milkweed can grow in a wide variety of environments from roadsides and abandoned lots to the edge of fields, meadows, and ...

Master gardener Christine Pappes, 57, brought more than 240 milkweed plants she'd raised at her South Russell home. "They've been my babies for a long time," Pappes said. "Time to fly the nest." ...

Green milkweed, Asclepias viridis, seedlings seen Thursday, April, 4, 2024, are native to the Texas Gulf Coast and and can be propagated from seeds.

Native milkweed plants — the kind good for butterflies — are coming out of dormancy and starting to sprout, so be patient. Southern California gardeners should be able to buy narrow-leaf ...

A monarch butterfly takes a flight break to feast on a blooming stalk of milkweed, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at the botanical gardens of BREC's Independence Park in Baton Rouge, La.

Starting milkweed and other native plants from seeds requires exposing them to a Northeast Ohio winter. ... I was not terribly surprised, because milkweed seeds might not sprout for a year or two.

Monarch butterfly decline: "It would be a mistake to think planting milkweed alone will solve this problem," said Anurag Agrawal, Cornell University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology ...

But, in recent years, the milkweed has gained ground, and we now have some clumps of perhaps 30 plants where there used to be three. Like most people, we encourage milkweed growth for the ...