Grow milkweed (Asclepias) to support monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and bees while adding color, fragrance and beauty to your landscape. You’ll find native milkweeds throughout North and ...

Grow this milkweed in sunny mixed borders, natural gardens, rain gardens, and alongside ponds. And best of all, the deer and rabbits tend to leave it, and other milkweeds, be.

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

Milkweed is the only plant monarchs eat and lay their eggs on, and planting it is very easy. All you need is a milk jug, soil, and seeds. Place the plant outside where the sun shines and water it.

Create a pollinator paradise in your garden with these perfect planting recipes. Use plants individually or mix-and-match ...

The iconic monarch butterfly is declining across North America. You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on ...

For those of us in Pennsylvania, that means planting common milkweed, butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and swamp milkweed (asclepias incarnata). Side note: for those who really love the look of ...

Together, Broyles and Kuzdzal teamed up to create a milkweed planting event on Monday, May 6. Students, faculty and staff were welcome to join Outdoor Pursuits plant milkweed from 3 to 5 p.m. in two ...

MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announces milkweed as the Rare Plant Monitoring Program's 2025 Plant of the Year and encourages planting milkweed to help monarchs.

Project Milkweed. The department’s 2024 Milkweed Giveaway kicked off during National Pollinator Week in June. An overwhelming response led to the distribution of 780,000 milkweed seed packets in ...