Responding to our April 17 story on butterfly gardens, a reader wanted to know about plants attractive to butterflies, but not to deer. Here's the followup: Hi, Gail - I live in deer country, too, so ...

On June 24, a group of 20 volunteers planted a hummingbird and butterfly garden at a residence near the Medical Center. The garden was a project from an internet auction organized to raise funds to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swallowtail butterfly in flight - Gordon Magee/Shutterstock Turning our backyards into butterfly safe havens can involve a list ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This column resumes the development of a butterfly garden to fill a 270-square-foot open space resulting from the removal of a large invasive shrub. The ...

Q: We are thinking about planting a butterfly garden but don’t know where to begin. Can you offer some suggestions? A: Butterfly gardens can be attractive to both butterflies and gardeners if a few ...

Have you ever noticed that some insects turn up in droves as soon as the growing season is under way while others are more elusive? For example, any gardener can have aphids and Japanese beetles, but ...

Called by many common names, Conclinium greggii is well known to anyone who gardens for pollinators. Most simply call this plant Gregg’s blue mistflower. A Texas SmartScape plant, the 2020 Texas ...

This article first appeared on jillbjarvis.com. Click here to view the article in its original format. Since school is a little different this year… we’re posting an idea for a Houston-area (socially ...

The resurgence of a native Floridian plant, the coontie, has in return revived the fortunes of the native Atala butterfly, which relies on the coontie and related plants to feed its larvae. Both ...