And the time to plant milkweed is in the fall, in October and November. Birmingham, Alabama-based garden designer Zachary ...

Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica) is among the late emerging perennials you'll want to carefully mark now. Photographs by MelindaMyers.com. As ...

Liz Partsch provides a step-by-step guide on how to plant milkweed in the fall to support native species and pollinators ...

Every fall, we rush to clean up the garden, divide perennials, and tuck things in for winter. But this year, I want to challenge you to do something different. Something that could literally help save ...

The first of this year's southbound monarch butterflies are arriving at their overwintering grounds in central Mexico, though ...

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People often think of common milkweed, the 3-to 5-feet tall unbranching plant with oval leaves and pink flower clusters. But there are up to 100 types of milkweeds in the ...

As you prepare your gardens for winter, consider marking the location of late emerging perennials to avoid accidentally ...