Learn which host plants, cover and native flowers to grow so caterpillars, chrysalises and adult butterflies thrive in your ...

Watching butterflies flit around the yard is one of life’s simple pleasures. Butterflies are not only calming to watch, but they play an important role in the health of backyard plants. Most plants ...

Some gardens are designed to attract butterflies while others bring awareness to them. Twahna P. Harris admits that this idea is a different approach to planting flower gardens. Still, the concept isn ...

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

Butterfly gardens can bring so much life to your yard. Not only do they attract these delicate pollinators, but they also support local ecosystems, providing nectar and pollen-rich plants for bees, ...

Butterflies aren’t just beautiful — they’re out there working hard, pollinating as they flit from flower to flower. In fact, butterflies are the second-largest group of pollinators, after bees.

Blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta cayennensis) is part of the Verbenaceae family. The bright green leaves have a quilt-like ...

While butterflies will visit lots of different flowers, there are some that actually draw them. This can be for several reasons. Most commonly, there are some plants, such as dill, or milkweed, that ...

The Tropical Troopers 4-H Club recently planted a butterfly garden for the Caring Village of Davie, an assisted living facility. With the help of its $500 4-H Community Pride Grant, the club managed ...

Dew glistens on the light pink powder puffs that cascade from numerous trees. Rare coontie plants sprout from the ground, passion vine twists and climbs upward. Throughout the greenery and bursts of ...

Have you ever walked through a local botanical garden and longingly wished you could have your own butterfly garden at home? As it turns out, it’s not too difficult to reimagine a butterfly haven in ...

The new pollinator/butterfly garden at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens opened last Sunday to great fanfare, and the butterflies, as if on cue, were all in attendance. Monarchs, zebra heliconians, ...