There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

Cook County Forest Preserves is on a mission to restore 30,000 acres of habitat to high-quality condition by the year 2030.

Male cardinals with their bright red feathers can make your yard festive all year round. They feed on caterpillars, which can ...

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, milky ...

The last five decades have not been good to insects. During this 50-year period, pesticide use and climate change have shrunk ...

We spoke with Victoria Burnett, a Visitor Services Manager working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get some insight ...

Use plants that offer a succession of blooms from ... In the first part of this two-part series, we identified the most common hard-to-maintain areas of your thirsty grass lawn and how to renovate ...

"Planting milkweed could mean a monarch butterfly survives through the winter and makes it to Mexico. The native plant society said you don't have to get rid of all your foreign plants to have a local ...

With a mix of host plants like dill that feed larvae and nectar ... Just make sure to choose a variety that's native to your area and, above all, avoid the common mistake of planting tropical milkweed ...

According to a Reddit post in the r/gardening subreddit, you're throwing out a free boost to your seed life. The original poster wrote that the material is the "secret to saving seeds," just as they ...