Master Gardener volunteers in Bexar and Comal counties are collecting germination and growth data on native milkweed species.

For decades, many American gardeners looked at native plants and saw weeds. Most nurseries didn’t stock them. But that’s ...

With the summer season ramping up, experts with Texas A&M AgriLife said now is the ideal time to create an oasis for monarch ...

we’re going to lose our native insects and birds and it all starts out with a plant,” Myers said. “All the bugs that the ...

Because native plants aren’t sterile, as many hybridized and exotic species have been bred to be, some spread readily by ...

This spring has been an environmentally different year in Nebraska between surprising tornadoes, northern lights and ...

Because native plants aren’t sterile, as many hybridized and exotic species have been bred to be, some spread readily by dropping seeds after ... syriaca (common milkweed), can be aggressive ...

Diboll is now 42 years into the business of propagating and selling seeds and plants of native Midwestern and Eastern species ...

"We incorporate native and tropical milkweed plantings in the garden ... Arnold suggests waiting until mid-to-late summer to sow seeds. "If planted now, these blooms will peak during the heat ...

Controlling spread Because native plants aren’t sterile, as many hybridized and exotic species have been bred to be, some spread readily by dropping seeds after they bloom ... Its cousin, Asclepias ...

Opinion: Let’s help our bees, butterflies and birds — and ourselves — by banning neonics and creating more pollinator habitat ...