The city will hand out up to 150 containers of milkweed plant on a first-come ... “Our main focus is raising the monarch butterfly population, but it also connects to a variety of other issues ...

Native wildflowers are an oasis of humming insects that will feed wild birds all summer long, and attract hummingbirds and butterflies, too. Planting native shrubs and native trees that also ...

For example, if orange is selected as the primary color, the pallet can be expanded to include yellow and, or red. Because a variety of colors is made using a range of values and hues, the choice of ...

On Thursday, the gardeners were on hand to clean out the beds around the winterberry, coreopsis, and butterfly milkweed, and pop into the newly mulched soil some colorful spring harbingers like ...

The Cedar Falls/Monarch Club partnership has created several milkweed gardens to serve as pollinators for the Monarch Butterfly population. In addition, Cedar Falls will soon have its own milkweed ...

With their jewel-toned feathers and acrobatic flights, hummingbirds are fascinating to watch as they zip around your garden and whir by you with the hum of their fast-beating wings. But lately you’ve ...

Native and pollinator-friendly perennials include Achillae millefolium (yarrow), Asclepias incarnata (butterfly weed) and Asclepias tuberosa (swamp milkweed ... has beautiful orange to red ...

AP If Lila Tomek had her way, she would have fought in World War II alongside her two brothers ... she searched fields and ditches for milkweed pods, which were used to create life preservers ...

The milkweed species of plants are a favorite among gardeners due to their colorful flowers that attract stunning butterflies. The winged creatures are drawn to milkweed because they are a primary ...