Why You Should Plant Milkweed in Your Garden. The loss of monarch butterflies may have been the reason so many conservation groups have focused on growing milkweed, but monarch butterflies aren't ...

A new butterfly garden at Camp Salmen Nature Park in Slidell is experimenting with varieties of milkweed to see which ones perform best. Volunteers recently planted the garden, called Camp Monarch ...

Ryan Pankau teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about milkweed Want to turn your yard into a butterfly haven? Planting milkweed is one of the best ways to do it! In this video, we’ll show you ...

The easiest method of getting milkweed seeds for your monarch butterfly garden is to find it locally, either through buying or trading seed from a local source, or by gathering seeds from nearby ...

The following non-native plants, as recommended by Roger’s Gardens, will also pull monarchs into your garden: lantana, butterfly bush (Budleja davidii), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and moss ...

Milkweed is beautiful, easy to grow, and necessary for butterflies to survive. Here's how to grow and care for milkweed the right way.

Most gardeners recognize milkweed immediately as a butterfly attracter, but there’s a complex community that revolves around this prolific plant that extends well beyond the monarch.

In fact, leading studies have estimated that 1.3 billion milkweed stems are needed across the monarch’s breeding range to stabilize its population. Offering federal tax credits, similar to tax ...

Illinois needs to plant milkweed, and a lot of it, over the next 18 years to ensure the state’s official insects, monarch butterflies, survive.

The following non-native plants, as recommended by Roger’s Gardens, will also pull monarchs into your garden: lantana, butterfly bush (Budleja davidii), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and moss ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California ...