If you have harvested milkweed seeds from existing plants, the typical perennial varieties that need cold stratification ...

The population of essential milkweed plants has decreased over the past decades. Help restore their numbers by collecting ...

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

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

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

If you are planting milkweed to attract monarch butterflies, you are already ahead of the game. But even the most well-meaning gardeners can make critical mistakes when planting milkweed that may send ...

Volunteers plant hundreds of milkweed plants in hopes of supporting the dwindling Western monarch population in California.

PETOSKEY, MI – Lauri Juday carries around little packets of common milkweed seeds and gives them to anyone who promises to plant them. That’s because monarch butterflies need native milkweed plants to ...