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

Fortunately, it's super-easy for individuals to help the situation by planting a milkweed patch (or five) in their home ...

Do your part to support declining monarch butterfly populations by planting these free milkweed seeds. Reviewed by Joseph ...

One of these collaborations is the planted butterfly gardens in and around the Chickasaw Nation. Thousands have become ...

Butterfly milkweed is a native plant that is tough as nails in the garden. Since the plant is a native it is extremely drought-tolerant and will put up with poor soil conditions as long as they ...

Monarch butterfly gardens need both milkweed and nectaring plants. Inside a pupa tent in the Monarch Watch garden, caterpillars, soon to become monarch butterflies, eat parts of a milkweed plant.

Happily, wherever you garden in the U.S., there’s a native ... Another plus of growing either swamp milkweed or butterfly weed is that, unlike common milkweed, neither needs a period of cold ...

Transformations come in many varieties and in recent years, one local gardener has undergone a metamorphosis of her own. It all started four years ago, when Linda Pelzl of Prior Lake heard a ...

It’s been a rough year for the migratory monarch butterfly. The colder spring in the upper Midwest negatively impacted population numbers and the butterfly was classified as endangered by ...

At the Chickasaw Nation, collaborations come in many shapes and sizes. One of these collaborations is the planted butterfly ...

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 ...