If you prefer to start seeds indoors, stratify them by placing them in a moist paper towel in the refrigerator for 30 days ...

Our expert gardener offers tips to keep your seeds and seedlings in fighting shape for spring, including milkweed and ...

The temperatures are dropping, the trees are putting on their annual color show, and Halloween is less than two weeks away.

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies ...

It’s getting colder out and a lot of plants are starting to dry out and wilt away, but there’s things you can do to help ...

Milkweed seeds with their prominent parachutes are ... I’ll have plenty to share with gardening friends so they can start or diversify their own native plots.

This is great news for the nearly-extinct monarch butterflies, which will pass through the area as they migrate back to ...

Gather wild sunflower, Joe pye weed, goldenrod, bergamot, milkweed and zinnia seeds, and store them over ... with friends and neighbors. Before you start, it is essential to understand basics ...

An overwhelming response led to the distribution of 780,000 milkweed seed packets in 2023, an effort that sought to restore landscapes and preserve habitats for pollinator species. However ...

The result is a faster growth start in the spring ... to get the swamp milkweed to germinate, but that issue seemed to be addressed when we obtained new seeds, used different stratification ...