This beautiful orange flower will bring many beneficial bugs to your garden. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden.

After realizing I couldn’t name most of the plants in my neighborhood, I downloaded a plant identification app. It was a great way to connect with my surroundings. “Plant identification starts when we ...

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a vibrant, low-maintenance native plant that supports pollinators in the garden. It's part of the milkweed family, and, like its relatives, it "supports a whole ...

If someone took 75% of your food away, you wouldn't be a happy camper. But when you grow invasive butterfly bushes and other plants that provide only nectar, that's what you're doing to birds and ...

Monarchs are always welcome visitors to the garden, but it is important to know your options for butterfly and caterpillar health. Milkweed is a flowering perennial that attracts monarch butterflies ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. What a week we are having as we celebrate the first day of summer. Temperatures in the nineties with high humidity dominated the weather and then the heavy ...

A. Milkweed or butterfly weed (Asclepias spp.), which produces flattened clusters of star-shaped blooms for months, is a nectar plant for several butterflies and a larval food plant for monarch ...

Wildflowers have had a special place in my heart since my childhood days. There was a field between our house and the church that I loved to walk through, especially in the spring. It brings back ...