Households across the West are increasingly ditching the smooth green lawns of the stereotypical American dream and attempting to grow native plants instead — a practice Indigenous communities ...

When I first planted my backyard, my husband called my garden Death Row. I wanted to grow flowers and vegetables as my grandmothers had done and trees as my mother had done, but my efforts fell under ...

Having native plants in a garden can create a good environment for caterpillars, which are hearty food for birds Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons under CC By-SA 2.0 As a boy growing up in the 1960s ...

Whether you’re landscaping your front or back yard with flowers, grasses, shrubs or trees, choosing native plants can have a positive impact on the ecosystem. Native plants and wildlife have an ...

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

SPRINGDALE — A growing interest in a more natural environment has the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists looking to expand its programs to make native plants available. The group recently met with ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Monarch butterflies on their way to Mexico for the winter often find themselves making a rest stop at local milkweed. And that was the topic this morning at the Capitol ...

Rare plants are no longer the secret obsession of eccentric collectors hidden away in greenhouses. Today, the fascination ...

Can we do that and grow native plants? The goals are completely aligned. In California, you have a really powerful message: We don’t have enough water for lawns, so we’re going to give you a ...