Give the most meaningful gift of growing this holiday season. Senior Editor Melanie shares her flower seed picks to delight ...

It's been running for over 20 years and offers free common, showy, swamp, butterfly, and narrow-leaved milkweed seeds to ...

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed ...

Milkweed is abundant in local nurseries as monarch enthusiasts seek to increase the declining population and backyard ...

Share articleTropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted ...

Tropical Milkweed is a popular ornamental plant featuring bright orange and yellow flowers. It is often planted in yards to attract the iconic monarch butterfly, which lays its eggs on the ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...

In June, a group of nature lovers got together on the back deck of Vermont Woods Studios and shared milkweed seeds and plants — milkweed is the monarch's only food source and the over-use of ...

Among the leading causes of this long-term trend are: Deforestation and forest degradation in the butterfly's overwintering sites Climate change punctuated by episodic extreme weather conditions in ...