Give the most meaningful gift of growing this holiday season. Senior Editor Melanie shares her flower seed picks to delight ...

Monarch butterflies are facing habitat loss and environmental challenges, but milkweed plants are essential for their ...

Wildlife officials are considering adding the monarch butterfly, which migrate to California's coast each fall, to the ...

If you are looking for plants that will fill your garden with a variety of butterflies, milkweed is one of the best. But with over 100 species, it's easy to become overwhelmed with choice.

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed ...

Milkweed is abundant in local nurseries as monarch enthusiasts seek to increase the declining population and backyard ...

Don’t give up. It will eventually come up, then quickly grow and set blooms. Butterfly milkweed begins flowering in June, and the flowers will last a month of more. The best part is that this ...

Milkweed plants, a favorite food of butterfly larvae, grow within and around the edges of cornfields. Several lines of evidence presented at the conference suggest GM corn presents little threat ...

Share articleTropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted ...

In June, a group of nature lovers got together on the back deck of Vermont Woods Studios and shared milkweed seeds and plants — milkweed is the monarch's only food source and the over-use of ...