Watching butterflies flit around the yard is one of life’s simple pleasures. Butterflies are not only calming to watch, but they play an important role in the health of backyard plants. Most plants ...

Some gardens are designed to attract butterflies while others bring awareness to them. Twahna P. Harris admits that this idea is a different approach to planting flower gardens. Still, the concept isn ...

The best way to attract butterflies to your garden is to give them plenty of bloom. Butterflies don’t care whether your gardening style is formal or informal, and they’re not that picky about color ...

You can support butterflies by doing these things: garden with natives and nectar plants; offer host plants; don’t use ...

You — a large, warm-blooded creature incapable of flight — actually have something very important in common with the butterfly: You both adore flowers. In clear prose and lovely photographs, a new ...

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

While butterflies will visit lots of different flowers, there are some that actually draw them. This can be for several reasons. Most commonly, there are some plants, such as dill, or milkweed, that ...

The backbones of a butterfly garden are host and nectar-producing plants. Host plants support the egg, larval (caterpillar), and pupal (chrysalis) stages of the butterfly life cycle while the ...

Florida is home to more than 180 species of butterflies, which is the highest of any state east of the Mississippi River. And 40 of these species are unique to Florida. Butterflies are important to ...

The Tropical Troopers 4-H Club recently planted a butterfly garden for the Caring Village of Davie, an assisted living facility. With the help of its $500 4-H Community Pride Grant, the club managed ...

Dew glistens on the light pink powder puffs that cascade from numerous trees. Rare coontie plants sprout from the ground, passion vine twists and climbs upward. Throughout the greenery and bursts of ...