CHICAGO (WCIA) — A new study finds anyone with a green thumb, urban or rural, can help save the population of a beloved insect. Scientists are worried for monarch butterflies, the orange and black ...
You can support butterflies by doing these things: garden with natives and nectar plants; offer host plants; don’t use ...
Grow milkweeds for monarch butterfly caterpillars. Milkweed seeds require a cold, moist process called stratification in ...
It’s garden planning time. If planning a flower garden to attract monarch butterflies, there’s interesting research from the University of Kentucky about placement of milkweed in gardens. The research ...
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 ...
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How to plant milkweed seeds in fall – for plants that pollinators adore
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 ...
(CN) - Cities will grow exponentially in decades to come, and while wildlife conservation has seldom factored into city planning, a pair of studies found Thursday that urban centers can play a key ...
When artist Shawn Hall took a close look at the flowering plants in Crescent Park, she noticed something that made her curious. “I was looking at the milkweed and there was a monarch caterpillar on it ...
When Lorraine Kells first came upon two sprawling Chicago Park District flower beds near Diversey Harbor, she saw weeds and cigarette butts. But eight years later, a dazzling array of wildflowers ...
Monarchs are heading to wintering grounds in Mexico. Save the dates for the 2026 monarch and milkweed classes with free ...
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 ...
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