A butterfly garden is truly a special, magical space, and it's not difficult to grow one in your own yard. You just need the ...

A thriving garden bursting with color is a dream for many homeowners. Yet, the reality of constant watering, deadheading, and ...

Turn your backyard garden into a beautiful butterfly paradise. Grow swallowtail butterfly host plants and flowers.

It’s a myth that red is the only color that truly captures a hummingbird’s attention. While they are certainly drawn to fiery ...

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You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.

Gardeners often plant milkweed with the hope of helping butterflies, but not all milkweed species have the same effect.

Brent Williams of Stockton photographed a yucca rostrate cactus in his backyard. With an Apple iPhone 13 he captured its ...

The idiom “watching the grass grow” means doing something that’s tedious or boring, but for this month’s Readers Photo Challenge, “plants,” observing growing things resulted in some pretty exciting ...

One the few things that have lifted my spirits during this summer’s drought are the cheerful faces of the black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) that run riot in my garden along with golden rod (Solidago) and ...