The lawn between the sidewalk and road, called a hellstrip due to its seemingly inhospitable growing environment, can be ...

When you plant a rain garden, you do your part for the environment, filtering runoff and protecting groundwater. Pick the ...

2. Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ): This will take wet soil, as its name suggests, though it doesn't need it to flourish. Plants bloom later than butterfly milkweed, and the flowers are a ...

Commonly known as milkweed, Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial plants in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) plant family. Named for Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, plants exude a sticky ...

A perfect plant does not exist, but Asclepias tuberosa, commonly called the butterfly weed, comes close. If the native of the eastern United States tolerated shade – which it doesn’t – it ...

When looking for a bit larger plant that tolerates moist to wet and occasionally dry soils, check out red milkweed (Syriaca incarnata), also known as pink and swamp milkweed.

Another attractive Michigan native asclepias is the swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) that rises 3 to 4 feet in height and produces clusters of fragrant pink to mauve flowers in summer. While ...

Plant butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) or rose milkweed (Asclepias incarnata): If you have the scarlet milkweed in your garden, as many of us do, make sure you cut it back to the ground ...

Whorled milkweed, Asclepias verticillata, is considered a small annual plant that grows best in sandy, moist areas that never get extremely dry.

Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and common milkweed (A. syriaca) averaged the highest number of eggs, according to studies.

It's very good." The Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) also performs well, but the butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) was a little trickier to grow.