Figuring out the best plants for a butterfly garden is more than merely a desirable way to add charm, color and diversity to the plot. These days, keeping our gardens filled with butterflies should be ...

Creating a garden that welcomes wildlife is a wonderful way to bring nature closer to your home. Whether you have a large ...

You can support butterflies by doing these things: garden with natives and nectar plants; offer host plants; don’t use ...

While butterflies will visit lots of different flowers, there are some that actually draw them. This can be for several reasons. Most commonly, there are some plants, such as dill, or milkweed, that ...

There are about 750 butterfly species in the United States, according to the Smithsonian Institution, with the cabbage white perhaps the most common. Butterfly sightings in gardens are becoming more ...

Dale Skaggs plants a native azalea and Joellen Dimond plants a butterfly garden. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Dixon Gallery & Gardens Head of Horticulture Dale Skaggs ...

Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first ...

What are native plants? Either you love them, hate them or don’t really know what they are. If you fall into the latter ...

Gardeners, it’s hot outside, so schedule gardening chores early in the morning or late in the evening, drink plenty of water and keep a sweat towel handy…enough said! A quick few words if you planted ...

Pollinators work for free, but they require specific conditions to perform well. It's easy to introduce these elements in ...