Pretty flowers are only part of what pollinators need. Here are some native plants that help pollinators thrive in your ...

October is a time of garden transition. Summer ends and fall begins. Toward the middle of the month, when the air cools and ...

An upright, compact shrub with arching branches. Long panicles of dark purple flowers appear from early summer through to early autumn.

Carnivorous plants have a range of different mechanisms for catching prey, from tall trumpet-like pitchers, to rounded cups and traps that snap shut, to glistening sticky leaves. Many also produce ...

John Nelson Garden Columnist Sep 28, 2024 Sep 28, 2024 “Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afford most familiar examples of a hairy or downy pappus; those of thistles, &c. in autumn ...

Big, vibrant and abundant swallowtail butterflies bring a flurry of eye-catching activity to backyards across the United ...

You have probably seen this one’s bright butter-yellow flowers, the plants commonly very abundant ... botanists likened the flowers in shape to butterflies (and the flowers can thus be described ...

As a public service, the herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, call 803-777-8175 or email [email protected].

(Sept. 26, 2024) Native plants and I go way back. For decades I have been writing about and advocating for planting natives in the landscape for their beauty, easy care and important role in our ...

Cio-Cio-San, a.k.a. Madame Butterfly, first won hearts in an 1898 short story by an American lawyer, then in a Broadway play two years later before becoming immortal thanks to Puccini’s 1904 ...

considering everything from the soil to the plants and wildlife. But she says new gardeners should also reflect on what they most want to achieve, whether it’s attracting a particular butterfly ...

There are many fans of the bosque ecosystem along the Rio Grande, among them monarch butterflies. They roost in cottonwoods during their annual migration south, and feed on native plants. But ...