attracting butterflies with their nectar. They thrive in full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. Plant pentas in the ...

Looking for a quick burst of color for your patio containers? Discover gorgeous annual and perennial blooms that quickly fill ...

While hummingbirds will grace your yard or garden looking for any flowers or feeders, this particular warm-weather bloom ...

so many of the same plants will be attractive to them. While out taking photographs I’ve come across big batches of butterflies on vitex, lantanas, pentas, Mexican sunflowers, cosmos ...

The blossoms of few plants – if any – are as alluring to butterflies and hummingbirds as those of pentas (P. lanceolata), a bushy, evergreen perennial. Indeed, even diehard native plant ...

Just like bees, butterflies seek nectar from flowers, spreading pollen in areas where it’s needed for plants to grow, according to National Geographic Kids. Planting flowers butterflies love can ...

Pentas (Pentas lanceolata ... serve as an important food source for monarch butterflies and thrive in full-sun locations and warm temperatures. Plants are 2- to 4-feet tall, depending upon ...

This summer has been hot and humid and requires tough plants that can tolerate these ... farinacea), native milkweed (Asclepias spp.), pentas, periwinkle/vinca (Catharanthus roseus), moss rose ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s ...

A monarch butterfly was circling overhead, and other butterflies were also doing drive-bys. But the real action was happening on the garden’s narrow-leaf milkweed plants, thin smooth stalks ...