Plus, "it attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and can grow well in sun to partial shade." The pink-purple flowers resemble swamp milkweed, but Joe Pye weed is taller and grows more vigorously. Swamp ...

Most gardeners think the swamp milkweed has the most attractive flowers of our native milkweeds. The issue now will be to figure out how to successfully transplant it and the other seedlings.

Funds to construct up to three of the ponds at Robert C. Corby Arboretum and Wildlife Sanctuary in Pittsford, at a cost of $8 ...

Mexican butterworts are houseplants which stay indoors year-round, however, Gierys cultivates other types of carnivorous ...

Become familiar with common milkweed to avoid harvesting pods from similar plants such as hemp dogbane and swamp milkweed. Pods will appear slightly gray, begin to dry and have brown seeds inside.

The goal of the Native Milkweed Project in San Antonio is to figure out which of six native milkweed species is the easiest to grow, what are the most successful growing techniques, and which is ...

Milkweed and wildflowers may soon be a common sight growing around cornfields in an effort to help increase biodiversity in ...

DO think about growing Asclepias incarnata or swamp milkweed if you are not “frost-free” (i.e. cooler area). The plant will grow from a rhizome in the second and ongoing years, and will sprout ...

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 ...

Never heard of a swamp cooler? You're not alone. Sometimes called an evaporative cooler, these efficient appliances can help beat the heat in certain climates and may be a better option than air ...

The charismatic monarch butterfly is migrating through the Lone Star State, as the species heads to Mexico for winter.