Cutting plants back in winter can help certain trees, shrubs, and flowers grow back fuller and more vigorously in the spring. But not all garden plants should get this treatment in wintertime. In fact ...

The strong urge to tidy up the garden when cold weather arrives is something that's familiar to every gardener. You want to clean up the entire space before spring returns, but holding back when it ...

Common milkweed provides nectar for butterflies, and is the only food source for monarch caterpillars, but is too aggressive ...

Find out which plants need spring pruning and how to prune them correctly.

Monarch butterfly caterpillars only eat leaves from the milkweed genus, Asclepias spp., so it’s critical for those butterflies that we try to grow as many of these plants as we can. Collecting ...