(Odds are if you get milkweed plants from a local garden society or conservation group, they will have done this research for ...

It's amazing how quickly they grow when they get enough light. If your garden has limited sun exposure, consider planting ...

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

Happily, wherever you garden in the U.S., there’s a native type of milkweed that can help support your local butterflies and other pollinators, and they are easy to grow from seed. The hardest ...

It can be one of the last plants to emerge ... Need another bonus for why you should grow butterfly milkweed? Here’s one; because it is in the milkweed family it is a larval host plant for ...

Monarch butterflies depend on human intervention to thrive in the wild, as highlighted by the traveling exhibit "Monarchs and ...

ALEXANDRIA — The National Garden Bureau has named 2025 the Year of Asclepias (milkweed) — and for good reason. This resilient ...

Creating a garden sanctuary Milkweed is the perfect first plant for your garden. “You can get a milkweed and have that in a pot and that hosts monarch caterpillars,” Crinigan said.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed ... can fly farther and pollinate other relatively distant prostrate milkweed populations. But as ...