Growing milkweed from seed is an easy way to make your garden a monarch landing zone.

Swamp milkweed is a native plant that is essential for supporting monarch butterflies, providing them with necessary nourishment and habitat. Its attractive flowers appeal to bees and butterflies, ...

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...

Key Points Milkweed is the only plant monarch butterflies can lay their eggs on and feed from as caterpillars.Other ...

With the declining population of monarchs in the news so often these days, many home gardeners are choosing to add milkweed to their gardens to help support this beautiful butterfly. This is a ...

Yes, we have monarch butterflies in the Inland Northwest, but they aren’t common. Monarch butterflies are an iconic representative for pollinator conservation. Much has been written about preserving ...

Instagram Used plastic jugs turned out to be enough for one gardener to raise a remarkable number of pollinator-friendly ...

I agree with the recent letter writer who emphasized the importance of growing milkweed at least 5-10 miles from the monarch’s overwintering sites. My column provides a link to guidelines that makes ...

Common milkweed is an essential plant for monarch butterflies. But some towns and cities have banned the plant, sometimes in conflict with state... To grow or not to grow milkweed? It depends what ...

To the editor: As you note in your editorial, planting milkweed is critical to support the return of the monarch butterfly, since milkweed is the only plant that monarch caterpillars eat. Even more ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...