Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aurora Anaya dove headlong into California native plants for her home in Whittier. A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and ...

There’s nothing more delightful than waking up to a chorus of birdsong emanating from the garden every morning — unless it’s the wonderful serenade provided at dusk by the same songsters. We’ve lost 3 ...

It’s a growing trend around the country. Front yards that were once lawns are now becoming flowering native plants meadows. I visited John Esposito, a gardener in Huntington who changed his front yard ...

ESCANABA, MI – This monarch butterfly hotspot could attract even more pollinators in the future. A long-term pollinator habitat restoration project is underway at Peninsula Point, the southern tip of ...

It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant myths.

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The delicate gossamer-winged butterfly gives color and grace to your garden. Besides being beautiful, they’re good pollinators in our gardens and in the wild ...

Upcoming campus construction plans near Strawberry Creek could tear through the habitat of a native butterfly species. Beginning in mid-2026, UC Berkeley Capital Strategies plans to add energy ...

Georgia Parkinson Hill is a horticulturist, garden designer, and owner of the native landscape design firm Beautyberry Gardens in Atlanta, Georgia. Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to ...