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 South ...

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 South ...

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 ...

Milkweeds are not the most spectacular of flowering perennials, but they can look highly effective as fillers and textural foils in plant combinations. They are a must in any sunny herbaceous garden ...

There are many species of the plant Asclepias, some native and some non-native. Their common name is milkweed for the milky sap they produce. Milkweed is the larval host plant for the monarch ...

Monarch Butterflies are drastically decreasing in numbers. Urban development and insecticides have lead to the decline of the Monarch's habitat, the common/native milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca).

The common milkweed is a perennial that can grow in planting zones 4a-9b and is native to most of the eastern United States and eastern Canada. The plant can grow in full sun to part shade, and it ...

URBANA, Ill. – With all the “buzz” about bees and butterflies, the Perennial Plant Association is celebrating a plant known for its ability to support birds and insects, including a beloved North ...

Spring is around the corner and it’s time to start looking for butterflies in your gardens. If you haven’t seen any lately, maybe you need to rethink what you have planted. Butterflies need host ...

Asclepias syriaca, known as common milkweed, is the plant usually associated with the name “milkweed.” But its presence in the wild has been steadily declining because of agricultural practices, ...