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 ...

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.

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

Most gardeners are aware of how important milkweed is to Monarch butterflies, so adding Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Swamp Milkweed (A. incarnata), and Common Milkweed (A. syriaca ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...