A series of plant sales coming up feature native varieties that don’t need a lot of water or fuss and that provide food and ...

Learn when to prune a butterfly bush to promote healthy growth and vibrant blooms. This guide covers optimal pruning times ...

If you've got a shady spot that you would like to brighten up while attracting butterflies to your yard, these pretty, ...

A mere win is pretty good. A win-win situation is even better, but a win-win-win resulting from gorgeous flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies (and, usually, bees) seems just plain greedy.

We are in peak butterfly season for residential and migrating butterflies. If you want to see butterflies of all kinds in ...

There are unlimited ways to observe National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day, and that includes simply getting outside.

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more.

Glory of the snow ( Chionodoxa luciliae) is another plant that can survive winter outside. A bulb perennial, it can often ...

Perennial salvias come in a vast variety of styles, but the short and prolific summer flowering types, such as 'Amethyst', are easy and invaluable. The stems branch well from the base and the long ...

A traditional cultivar and an upright and bushy herbaceous perennial with attractive, dissected dark green foliage tinged red in spring. Erect stems holding showy, spicily scented, pink saucer-shaped ...

They attract several species of butterflies ... find tons of annuals and a few perennials that serve as nectar plants for butterflies. Boy, was I wrong. To provide consistent, long-term nectar ...