Thousands of native milkweeds are transforming North Florida roadsides into experimental pollinator corridors.

Pride of Barbados, esperanza, vincas and pentas are blooming strong after June and July rain and heat in Texas gardens.

If you've driven down two-lane highways in rural parts of North Florida recently, you may have noticed a spate of new signs ...

What a long, hot summer this is turning out to be! I’ve been doing my best to help my garden make it through the heat, with lots of morning watering, trying to keep ahead of the weeds and tending to ...

Meet butterfly weed, the brilliant orange native wildflower that lights up summer roadsides, thrives in dry sunny soil, and ...

The work to plant 15,000 milkweed plants along Florida roadsides is part of an initiative led by the University of Illinois ...

Habitat loss, pesticides and disease have made those encounters increasingly rare. Local entomologists and residents are ...

Habitat loss, pesticides and disease have made those encounters increasingly rare. Local entomologists and residents are ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

There’s only one host plant for a monarch butterfly—milkweed! Choose native varieties for your area such as common milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed and showy milkweed. Create a monarch haven ...

Appreciate the splendor of the season with these colorful photos of flowers (and butterflies!) submitted by Birds & Blooms readers.

Each year the National Garden Bureau chooses plants of the year. I always look forward to which plants they pick and learning more about each plant. This year among the chosen is Asclepias or milkweed ...