As you prepare your gardens for winter, consider marking the location of late emerging perennials to avoid accidentally ...

Every spring, gardeners wait for a familiar flash of orange wings to glide into their yards. Monarch butterflies, the symbols ...

As you prepare your gardens for winter, consider marking the location of late emerging perennials to avoid accidentally ...

Place seeds in moist soil in a container (like a milk jug with drainage holes). Leave the container outside through winter. Seeds naturally stratify and sprout in spring. Grow with KARE airs every ...

A butterfly garden is truly a special, magical space, and it's not difficult to grow one in your own yard. You just need the right collection of plants.

Gardeners are shifting focus to plants that are both beautiful and environmentally healthy. Leaving plants and leaves over winter provides food and habitat for birds and insects. GAYLORD — Fall is an ...

As a master gardener and master naturalist volunteer, I recently had the pleasure of teaching preschool classes about the Monarch butterfly’s lifecycle. While I kept things simple to make them easy to ...

Why we love it: The central cone that gives the flower its name makes it easy to see swallowtails (and photograph them) when they land for a meal. Butterfly weed is part of the milkweed family, known ...

Imagine a prairie. How many plant species do you see? Maybe you’re picturing yellow coneflowers, some little bluestem, perhaps a few asters. But plant ecologists at the University of Illinois ...