All across this country we are seeing fewer and fewer of the beautiful Eastern Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus). The same ...

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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...