Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here ...

Indeed, most SoCal nurseries offer only tropical milkweed, a handsome non-native plant with feathery purplish-green leaves and deep orange flowers. But well-meaning gardeners who plant this kind ...

This is probably due to the fact that tropical milkweed is evergreen with bright orange and yellow flowers, while native milkweed does not flower nearly as brilliantly and also goes dormant in the ...

There are more than 100 milkweed species, but what we call tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) is one of the most commonly grown.Native to tropical America, with crimson and orange flowers ...

The question for many isn’t whether to grow milkweed, but how -- and which kind. In Connie Day’s Santa Monica garden, a tiger-colored monarch spars with another butterfly, chasing it from a ...

Every fall, people who live in the Upper Peninsula's Delta County keep an eye out for fluttering clouds of orange and black. Sometimes there are a handful of monarch butterflies, stopping for a ...

Related: The 10 Best Gardening Gloves, According to Testing 2. Rinse the plants with water. Washing milkweed plants with a strong blast from the garden hose can dislodge milkweed aphids and reduce ...

This very distinctive bug is bright orange and black and feeds on milkweed seeds when they are available. When seeds are scarce, the bugs will feed on honey bees and monarch caterpillars and pupae.

The green team hopes naming orange milkweed the borough's flower will bring attention to the plant, often the bane of crop farmers, and to the black-and-orange butterfly, which now is being ...