This native perennial flower is a host plant for monarch butterflies. Plant milkweed to help support their populations, and you'll also get to enjoy the vibrant orange blooms and visiting butterflies.

Monarch butterfly populations are endangered, to the point that the 1.2 million Western monarchs counted in 1997 plummeted to fewer than 2,000 by 2020. Here are ways we can help them survive.

With cold weather arriving and the holiday season nearly upon us, I could write about fall leaf color or cool season flowers, but I cannot pass up the opportunity to tell you about Blue Fortune aga… ...

Gardeners urged to plant 5 flowers to keep butterflies returning all summer ... These beautiful creatures are attracted to vibrant colours like orange, red, purple and yellow.

With its bright-orange flowers, butterfly weed is hard to miss, even at 65 mph. Although many species of butterfly enjoy its nectar, monarchs use it as a host plant for their caterpillars — a ...

Butterflies and flowers have a done deal, a mutually beneficial partnership that works like this: Butterflies need food, and flowers need help with pollination. So, the flowers bribe the insects ...

Mike Malloy A butterfly lands on an Ixora. Ixora (Ixora coccina) is an old Florida landscape plant popular with gardeners for years because of its clusters of flowers that come in red, pink ...

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