Each year, the Perennial Plant Association selects a perennial, as voted by members, to become Perennial Plant of the Year. This honor started in 1990 with a creeping phlox, named Bruce's White ...

If you want monarch butterflies to flutter through your garden, you have to entice them with a tasty snack. And there is little tastier to butterflies than the aptly named butterfly weed ...

A crucial food source for monarch butterflies, butterfly weed thrives well in the Central Pennsylvania region. Butterfly weed is named 2017's Perennial of the Year | Home & Garden ...

Butterfly weed is a milkweed plant that attracts butterflies to the garden with its clusters of bright orange-to-yellow blooms rich with nectar and pollen. This clump-forming perennial grows two ...

Identified as the 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, butterfly weed is known for its ability to support insects and birds and serves as the primary caterpillar ...

Butterfly gardens are a great source of enjoyment. It can be a perfect opportunity to work with children or grandchildren and ...

Butterfly weed is a colorful, long-lived, drought tolerant perennial that thrives across much of the US. As I drive around now, I see a glimpse of this bright orange and I know exactly what it is.

Iron weed is in full purple bloom now and is such a butterfly magnet in our garden. It is a native, but I have to admit it really spreads, as does the other excellent butterfly magnet Joe Pye.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The most accepted definition of a weed is a "plant out of place" but in the case of Butterfly Weed, this plant deserves a place in everyone's garden and throughout our ...