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Want more birds and butterflies in your yard? This a shady tree that can bring color, fragrance, and wildlife to your yard, creating a peaceful outdoor escape.
Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate (Persicaria orientalis) is a gorgeous annual with bright pink blooms that attract hummingbirds, ...
Providing beautiful blooms for monarchs not only adds to the beauty of your garden but helps support their population. Here ...
Only a small group of people have regular access to the enchanting rooftop sanctuary atop the Center on Halsted in Lakeview.
Kate Shunney Park Naturalist Valerie Chaney championed a pollinator plot a few years back at Cacapon State Park, in ...
It’s time to rethink the American lawn: a landscaping default that sucks up money, water, chemicals, and time.
If you're looking for a bold, colorful, fast-growing, and fragrant flower to attract hummingbirds, consider planting beloved ...
Tennessee is home to over a thousand insects, but a few are quite sizable. Discover the biggest insects that live in the ...
Dear Master Gardener: We would like to plant a large shade tree with beautiful fall color to add to our landscape. Is a ...
Master gardener Sally Scalera shares the dirt on which fragrant plants are native, important because they attract and support ...
Nursing Boobialla In addition to selling food plants and local native species, Dalki Garringa Native Nursery raises creeping boobialla from cuttings of plants growing at the nursery. The nursery’s ...
Not all gardeners are patient—and neither are pollinators. Thankfully, some of the most beautiful flowering plants that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds also grow remarkably quickly ...