A recent post in the r/NativePlantGardening subreddit shows off a densely planted urban yard in Illinois, where over 60 ...

Perennials provide excellent value, offering potentially years of stunning blooms with minimal effort required. Plant once ...

Native prairie landscaper Sam Hollingsworth said Iowa was once 85% of prairie land and now 99.9% of that is gone.

A new prairie in Goshen is set to attract birds ... "So monarchs have to have milkweed. And there's only about eight species. There's not a ton of different species of milkweed that grows in ...

Grow milkweed (Asclepias ... You’ll enjoy the orange blossoms in meadow, prairie, and even semi-formal gardens. Combine this beauty with yellow, purple, and blue flowers. Deadhead faded flowers ...

The available seeds include three different milkweeds, prairie milkweed and butterfly milkweed which is bright orange and one of Ponder's favorites. Lead plant, is another she's fond of.

A plot of land near the Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton middle and high schools will be transformed in the coming years from a field of green grass to a vibrant prairie filled with the pink blossoms of ...

But he expects the prairie plants will take over with more time and controlled burns. He points out several native plants — big bluestem, wild quinine, milkweed, common evening primrose — that ...

“We’re planting New England aster, swamp milkweed, common milkweed, blazing star, and joe pye weed,” Meyer said. Her research, which looked into 12 years of prairie restoration efforts on this ...

Monarch caterpillars hatching from eggs laid on tall green milkweed (A. hirtella) and prairie milkweed (A. sullivantii) had the lowest survival rates. Protecting and expanding the number of ...

Losing the prairie will mean more real estate to mow ... and already some of the milkweed is growing again. The Toledo Zoo has prairies like this at around 100 other locations like schools and ...