If your dream garden includes fluttering butterflies, butterfly weed can help bring it to life. With its bright orange blooms and ability to attract monarchs and other pollinators ...

Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back to one foot ...

Q. For three years, caterpillars have devoured the leaves on my Mexican butterflyweed (Asclepias curassavica). As a result, these plants look vertical. What's the best way to prune them to promote a ...

The first week of March may roar in with cold weather but the soft bleating of opening buds will be waiting at the end of this month. The challenge is how to start the early spring garden chores such ...