As you prepare your garden for winter, you might want to start planning for the year ahead with plants that we predict will ...

A walk through Windsor’s fields reveals how milkweed, dandelions and cattails model a subtler, enduring kind of power—one ...

LANSING, MI – Milkweed is not a weed. Milkweed is a native plant and a keystone species critical for the survival of the beloved monarch butterfly, another keystone species crucial for its pollinator ...

These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either. By Margaret Roach To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...

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 ...