Plant butterfly milkweed, blue mist flower, Porter weed ... Prepare the garden soil with 2 inches of compost and 10 cups of a slow-release fertilizer such as 19-5-9 over every 100 square feet of bed.

Monarch butterflies are making their annual journey north out of Mexico to their summer breeding grounds. See where they've ...

Monarch butterflies require milkweed plants as egg-laying sites ... Don’t hesitate to add tomatoes that are obviously growing ...

2025 has been deemed the Year of the Asclepias by the National Garden Bureau. With so many to choose from, select the milkweed that is best suited to the growing conditions, your landscape design ...

Loss of milkweed (Asclepiadaceae) host plants in the spring and summer breeding habitat in the United States This research will result in a comprehensive report on the current status of native ...

With summer approaching ... are known to leave their roosts in the second week of March, searching for milkweed plants to lay their eggs. Just a few years ago, the eastern monarch was considered ...

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 ...