Overall, there are reasons to be delighted about the summer of 2025. The sunny weather has allowed for a vital boom in ...

Our outdoors expert David Carnduff takes a look at Inverclyde's blooming marvellous wildflowers - but says they stand in sharp contrast to a fall ...

Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide ...

Not all plants shrivel up when rain is scarce; some thrive in drier conditions. Here are the best to try in your garden this summer ...

A third of the food grown worldwide depends on insects and other animals for pollination, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ...

"Guess I'm pulling mine out!" Expert issues warning about harmful impacts of seemingly innocuous plant: 'I had no idea' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Butterfly weed is a native host plant to all sorts of pollinators, while butterfly bush is non-native, invasive in some places, and not helpful to pollinators.

The butterfly bush species Buddleja davidii is native to China but now is considered an invasive species along the U.S. West Coast and Pacific Northwest. Identifiable by its pink-to-purple flowers and ...

Butterfly bush. Image via Unsplash. The scientific explanation for a butterfly’s foot-tasting ability lies in specialized structures called chemoreceptors located on their tarsi. These receptors ...

Butterfly Bush thrives in Arizona gardens, and there are good reasons. Our abundant mountain sunshine is just what these bloom-loving plants crave. They soak up those rays and produce a profusion ...