Milkweed, the common name of the genus Asclepias, is an incredibly popular and diverse native plant that grows across the United States, from the Northeast to the Great Lakes to the Southwest. If you ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This perennial herb (yep, this pretty flowering plant is technically an herb) should be on every gardener ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Bugs are everywhere pollinating our favorite flowers, fruits and vegetables, and serving lunch for the birds. They provide an important service for the food supply for people, animals, insects and ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California. A ...

What’s special about milkweed? Milkweed (genus Asclepias) is the host plant, the only source of food, for the monarch caterpillar. If the monarch butterfly does not find milkweed, it will not lay any ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...