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 ...

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 ...

Thank you to The Daily Progress for the educational story about the endangered monarch butterflies and the common milkweed plant that is host to their eggs and caterpillars (“Now’s the time to plan a ...

Earlier this spring, a group of 100 gardening volunteers and organizations joined me in a series of classes at Milberger’s, the Dreamhill Estates Education Resource Center and the New Braunfels ...

Terasa Lott shares our Gardens of the Week. Amanda and Laura Lee talk about the many varieties of milkweed. Dr. Walter Edgar talks about his garden. Making It Grow is available to stream on pbs.org ...

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