Creating a haven for monarch butterflies in your backyard is more than just a joy for the eyes—it’s a crucial way to support ...

Butterflies are important pollinators and look beautiful fluttering around your yard. These blue fast-growing flowers are ...

Nectar plants give butterfly gardens a powerful boost. But they’re not the only key to drawing pretty pollinators to your yard. As your favorite winged beauties transition through their life ...

Did you know that nearly 20% of butterfly species worldwide are currently at risk of extinction As pollinators, butterflies ...

Just like bees, butterflies seek nectar from flowers, spreading pollen in areas where it’s needed for plants to grow, according to National Geographic Kids. Planting flowers butterflies love can ...

Plant it and they will come. Believe it or not, it really is that simple when it comes to butterfly host plants. Scatter dill seeds among your lovely pink cosmos, and soon you’ll see swallowtails.

Favorite Nectar Plants: mock orange, milkweeds, thistles, rhododendron, lilac, blackberry. Larval Host Plants: Native willows, quaking aspen and other poplars, red alder.

In addition to providing host plants, nectar plants are also needed to attract the adult butterflies to your garden. It’s best to provide a variety of blooming plants so that there is always ...

Learn how to transform your backyard into a magical garden, alive with color and beauty, at the Cockrell Butterfly Center's spring plant sale on April 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Visit the ...

To attract butterflies to your garden, plant some nectar plants. Butterflies are most active on warm days — the same days you like to be out in the garden. Attracting ...

Such plants are generally less showy than nectar plants. A mass of milkweed near our home attracts the monarch. Oaks host the gray hairstreak; wild cherry, Edward's hairstreak and red-spotted purple.

This gnarly but necessary part of butterfly gardening — growing larval host plants — is being embraced by a growing segment of gardeners. It's a seismic shift in gardening.