Rocky areas in your landscape can be a challenge to fill with beautiful flowering plants, but we've got you covered with blooms perfect for these sunny spots.

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

Can you help me understand why the city or county are mowing down the milkweed in our neighborhoods? I live in northwest Rochester where just a few years ago we had lots of milkweed and accompanying ...

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 ...

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 ...

June is a good month to consider the hot weather root-hardy perennials. The list includes esperanza, poinciana, duranta, vitex, Firebush, Thyrallis and milkweed. Grow them all in full sun. All are ...

Long before houses sprawled along the Interstate 680 corridor, the open fields were home to our native Asclepias fascicularis, or narrowleaf milkweed. It also was home to many monarch butterflies ...