Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone. Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024 ...

This article offers essential guidance from Davidson College Professor Scott Villa for Carolina gardeners looking to support monarch butterflies. Native milkweed varieties like swamp milkweed ...

It's spring. When planning your garden, consider planting native milkweed. Monarch butterflies need our help. Adverse weather conditions in 2024, coupled with a steady and ongoing decline in ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed ... still reasonably common.” If, like me, you regularly snap photos of the ...

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites, but they also migrate long distances every spring and fall, and the route from Mexico to Canada passes through the San Antonio area.

Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) enjoying it’s host plant Milkweed (Asclepias). Planting Milkweed and pollinator friendly flowers can make a critical difference in saving these beloved ...