Give the most meaningful gift of growing this holiday season. Senior Editor Melanie shares her flower seed picks to delight ...

Monarch butterflies are among the truly rare insects that so many have dedicated time and effort to protect, and yet still ...

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Texas Butterfly Ranch founder Monika Maeckle has a new book, “The Monarch Butterfly Migration, Its Rise and Fall,” perfect ...

A diverse butterfly garden offers many benefits, but creating one where the winged insects will return takes diligent work.

The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she ...

Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the milkweed as ...

You can eat almost every part of the fennel plant, including the bulb, leaves, and seeds. The bulb is the round part of the fennel plant at the base of the stalks. You can prepare fennel bulbs ...

you'll just continue to accumulate seeds and grow your library—but seeds don't last forever. They belong in the ground, not in your personal library. So each November, I take all my storage ...

Its flowers attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators in the fall, while its seeds feed birds in the cold winter months. These hardy native wildflowers are cold, heat, salt, and ...

She collected over three ounces of pure asclepias tuberosa seeds, also known as Butterfly Weed, as they ripened. Milkweed is the exclusive host plant for the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) ...