Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

Key Points Milkweed is the only plant monarch butterflies can lay their eggs on and feed from as caterpillars.Other ...

CLECELAND, Ohio -- Matt, a reader from Broadview Heights, sent me an email and a photo last month and wrote, “I was out walking my dog and I saw these plants. Are they milkweed pods, and if so, can I ...

The plant most gardeners buy to save the monarch butterfly is quietly making things worse. Every spring, nurseries and ...

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...

There is good news about the monarch butterfly migration this year. It looks like the number of butterflies that made it to their overwintering grounds in Mexico has nearly doubled compared to last ...

The interest in identifying the easiest native milkweeds to grow and the most successful techniques with seed by Central Texas gardeners continues. Attendees at the monarch butterfly and milkweed ...

Yes, we have monarch butterflies in the Inland Northwest, but they aren’t common. Monarch butterflies are an iconic representative for pollinator conservation. Much has been written about preserving ...

LANSING, MI – Milkweed is not a weed. Milkweed is a native plant and a keystone species critical for the survival of the beloved monarch butterfly, another keystone species crucial for its pollinator ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...