Indigenous people have utilized elderberry for centuries – harvesting berries for nutrition, utilizing hollow stems for tools ...

If you have noticed ragged, irregular holes in your hostas or other broad-leaf garden plants, you may be dealing with garden slugs.

The flowers of elderberry produce only pollen, thus limiting the appeal to insects. Bees, flies and beetles utilize the plant as a food source, including honeybees, small carpenter bees, halictid bees ...

Beneficial insect predators include ladybugs, minute pirate bugs, syrphid fly larvae, lacewing larvae, and parasitoid wasps. People often want to order these bugs from a garden catalog, but a more ...