The native plant I am most excited about in my "unlawned" front yard this spring won’t be showing up in beauty pictures anytime soon. But one morning this week, I was elated to discover that the ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

Gardeners are scrambling to help the threatened monarch butterfly by planting more milkweed, the insect's host plant. Drought, loss of habitat and pesticides have decimated stands of milkweed along ...

Control of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) with postemergence herbicides was investigated in greenhouse and field experiments. In greenhouse experiments, amitrole (3-amino-s-triazole), dicamba ...

After a very cool and rainly spring we are finally getting caught up in the vegetable garden and most of the annuals are in. Now it is time to think about adding more butterfly plants to the yard. I ...

Of all the perennials that sprouted up this spring, I was most pleased to see the butterfly weed. After a rough season last year, with deer keeping the plants eaten down to the ground, I wasn’t sure ...

Across the Midwest, some city codes threaten people with fines for having milkweed on their property. But experts say many places have dropped those rules to support monarchs with urban and suburban ...

Q. You, and others, have written about milkweed for years and the benefits to the butterfly population. But, a Virginia Beach friend of mine recently shared how toxic milkweed can be. Last autumn, ...