A butterfly house brings a feature of interest to the cutting garden. We do know what brings butterflies to a garden – host plants and nectar-producing plants. To keep butterflies in the garden, they ...

One way to do that is to provide pollinator plants that provide nectar for adults to feed on. Common mallow is packed full of ...

The marsh violets, the food for the larvae of the small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly, are being planted on Norbury Hill. The aim is to plant 20,000 this winter, which Dr Charlie Bell ...

This plant, butterfly milkweed or Asclepias tuberosa, currently is in its full summer beauty. Butterfly milkweed is a native plant that is tough as nails in the garden. Since the plant is a native ...