Grow milkweeds for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Milkweed seeds require a cold, moist process called stratification in ...

If you have harvested milkweed seeds from existing plants, the typical perennial varieties that need cold stratification ...

Butterfly weed (also called butterfly milkweed) is a pretty, low-maintenance perennial. Here are tips on where and how to plant it from horticulturists at Iowa State University in Ames. Q: What would ...

There are few summer sights more delightful than that of butterflies spotted flitting back and forth amongst a beautiful garden — and given that monarch butterflies in particular have been in greater ...

As much as 70 percent of the monarch butterfly population that used to winter in an area of forest near Mexico City has disappeared. The causes of the decline seem to be bad weather during the long ...

Don't be fooled by all those flickering black and orange butterfly wings. Migration season means it's high time for monarch butterflies in eastern Nebraska, but the iconic pollinators are actually the ...

When Planaria Price learned Sunset Boulevard Nursery in Silverlake was selling native, narrow leaf milkweed, she rushed out and bought six seedlings, planting them around her home in Echo Park on ...

From left, Parkersburg Woman’s Club Members Kathy Roedersheimer, Susan Shawver, Jane Pritchard and Master Gardeners Janie Grimm, Judi White, Robin Clark and Earlene Carpenter. The club cultivated ...

VISTA, Calif. --In California's drought, the struggling monarch butterfly may have found a sprinkling of hope. Suburban homeowners ripping out thirsty lawns are dotting their new drought-tolerant ...

GREEN BAY - It’s no accident that a monarch goes gliding by when you’re out in Randy Peterson’s pollinator-friendly backyard, but the ones perched on his kitchen table, even he didn’t see those coming ...