Add some altitude to your garden with these pollinator-favorite tall perennial flowers! Choose from coneflower, blazing star, ...

For gardeners — or fans of the color blue — the 2026 flower of the year should look familiar! Learn why delphinium deserves accolades.

Pesticides are the nerve center threat driving hummingbirds away, thinning their insect prey and contaminating nectar. This matters because insects form the protein-rich diet hummingbirds need, so ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average caterpillar has a very restrictive diet, feeding on only a few plants, and some ...

Hummingbirds generally evoke thoughts of warm weather and summer. Mostly, that would be correct, but the times, they are a-changin’. Of the 16 hummingbird species that nest in the U.S., only one ...

On a wooded hillside along the banks of the Allegheny River, Gabrielle Marsden brushed up against an oblong leaf: Asimina triloba. The American pawpaw.The deciduous tree bears North America’s largest ...

Butterflies are a delight to watch in the garden as they flutter from one flower to another feeding on nectar. They are like airborne flowers as they flash their colorful wings. For the past couple of ...

Red valerian, also known as Jupiter's Beard, is a low-maintenance plant that attracts hummingbirds and butterflies. The plant's bright color and tubular shape provide ideal feeding conditions for ...

One of the many signs of fall, aside from the chilling temperatures and the changing colors of the leaves, is the departure of New Jersey's beloved hummingbirds as they begin their annual migration to ...

Fall is nearly here in Michigan and hummingbirds are already making their trek southward for winter. A digital map from Hummingbird Central offers a chance to track hummingbird sightings across ...

Michael Schimmel sent a photo of a pair of roseate spoonbills spotted at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach. “Imagine my surprise coming across this pair,” Schimmel wrote. The roseate ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are the only hummingbirds that commonly appear in Rhode Island. They generally leave by mid-September, with males usually leaving first. Mass Audubon recommends taking your ...