16 charming beauties that make the best plants for a butterfly garden To successfully plant a garden for pollinators, you will need to provide nectar-rich flowers from early spring to fall.

Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed plants to survive. To help out your local pollinators, consider these free and low-cost ways to get your hands on seeds.

Want to try butterfly gardening? Plant butterfly host plants to give caterpillars food and a place to grow through their lifecycle.

No butterfly garden would be complete without it. Lots of different varieties of this long-popular plant are available these days, but the Butterfly series of pentas is among the very best.

Plant it and they will come. Believe it or not, it really is that simple when it comes to butterfly host plants. Scatter dill seeds among your lovely pink cosmos, and soon you’ll see swallowtails.

Some tips for a flourishing butterfly-friendly pollinator garden It doesn’t matter how big or small you plan to make your butterfly garden; any size will do. Here are some tips for creating a ...

Making a butterfly- worthy garden is not as difficult as you might think, however. Provide the right conditions and plants, and you’ll soon realize your goal.

The new garden is located in what had been an empty lot at 10051 Welch St., near Dearborn's Dix-Vernor corridor in the far ...

Plant a summer garden with vegetables that can handle Texas’ heat, such as peas (cow and pinkeye, purple hull, black eye), okra, Chinese long bean, various varieties of squash and numerous melons.

This gnarly but necessary part of butterfly gardening — growing larval host plants — is being embraced by a growing segment of gardeners. It's a seismic shift in gardening.

Colonial Gardens recently held its annual Butterfly Festival to the delight of local families who attended. Several hundred ...