Horticulturalists and herbalists share tips for nurturing plants with health benefits.

These flowering hardy perennials and bulbs do well with fall planting, which allows them to get established before blooming ...

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.

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a plant that will fill your garden with a variety of butterflies and keep weeds out after it has settled. Depending on its location in USDA zones 3 through 9 ...

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) is a milkweed that I had been told would help support monarchs and that I confidently planted in my garden, but native milkweed is a better answer.

As their name suggests, many milkweed species produce a milky-white substance that can be seen if their stem is broken.

Butterfly weed’s standout orange flowers bloom from early summer to fall, attracting hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies—including monarchs, which rely on milkweeds as larval host plants.

The butterfly weed got chomped down nearly to the roots just as it had started to flower. The plants did eventually begin to recover, but not in time to blossom and attract adult butterflies to ...

In garden centers, it is often labeled as butterfly weed. If you are growing a solid yellow milkweed, your plant could be a yellow flowering form of our native butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa.

Butterfly weed (also called butterfly milkweed) is a pretty, low-maintenance perennial. Here are tips on where and how to plant it from horticulturists at Iowa State University in Ames.