Figuring out the best plants for a butterfly garden is more than merely a desirable way to add charm, color and diversity to the plot. These days, keeping our gardens filled with butterflies should be ...

These flowers are gorgeous for you—and a feast for monarch butterflies.

This means there are many more beneficial insects and pollinators that are less visible, happily working and living in your garden.” Plants and butterflies have more than a love of blossoming in ...

Butterflies bring life and color to any garden, acting as pollinators while also enhancing the visual appeal of your outdoor space. By carefully selecting plants suited to their needs, you can create ...

Beginning a butterfly garden can be as simple as choosing flowering plants that will invite adult butterflies to your garden to feed. But if you want to create a butterfly garden that will act as a ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

It takes more than flower nectar to attract butterflies to your garden. Learn the truth about common butterfly host plant ...

Spring has just begun, and if you have a green thumb, you might be looking forward to your yearly gardening activities. As temperatures get warmer and the skies get sunnier, many critters will be out ...

Q: We are thinking about planting a butterfly garden but don’t know where to begin. Can you offer some suggestions? A: Butterfly gardens can be attractive to both butterflies and gardeners if a few ...

UC Master Gardeners helped transform a neglected site by a freeway offramp in Atascadero into a rest stop for migrating monarch butterflies.