Orange butterfly lands on a purple wildflower - Chris Mcloughlin/Getty Images Few things say "healthy and thriving garden" quite like the cheerful sound of birdsong and the fleeting flashes of ...

A Zebra Longwing butterfly nectars on bright pink verbena flowers at the Museum of Natural History exhibit. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s (SBMNH) annual summer exhibit ...

Want to add a bit of diversity to your yard with pretty flowers that will keep your yard buzzing with pollinators? Here's a ...

Most gardeners trust lavender and coneflowers to attract bees, but I've found that pollinators in my garden are making a beeline for one unexpected bloom: verbena. The low-maintenance perennial, ...

Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

In the poem “Blue-Butterfly Day,” Robert Frost describes butterflies as “…flowers that fly and all but sing.” If you want to attract as many of those flying flowers to your home as you can, you’ll ...

Sand verbena, Abronia fragrans, has a moth pollination syndrome, or a suite of floral characters modified by natural selection driven by moth pollination. Its flowers are open all night but closed all ...