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

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

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

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 ...

If you set a resolution for the new year, it may have involved a personal “glow up”—a positive transformation of self. You may be focused on eating healthier, getting fit, or quitting a bad habit. But ...

Among the thousand and thousands of monarch butterflies heading south to Mexico this fall are a couple hundred born, raised, and released at Bluff Creek Elementary School in Chanhassen. And when ...