The yellow butterfly vine (Mascagnia macroptera) is the 2019 Texas Superstar selection. This designation is reserved for beautiful plants that have passed rigid statewide testing and are found to be ...

I think all gardeners love to see butterflies visit their gardens in the summer months. If you want more butterflies this year, start planning now what to plant this spring to attract them. I want to ...

Get Neil Sperry's gardening answers on yellow butterfly vine propagation, pruning figs and abelias, fertilizing winter ...

Have you ever wondered how some plants get their names? Just spend a few minutes on a summer day near a butterfly bush and you will know exactly. Beginning in early summer and continuing until frost, ...

Buddleia is often dismissed as a weedy shrub, spotted growing in cracks by railway tracks or abandoned car lots. But I think we should give more time to this flowering plant. Yes, it is tough and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Old standbys: Penstemons are notorious draws for ...

July is a month in the northwest when all sorts of plants come into bloom. Annuals are finally filling in, the list of perennials goes on forever, and many shrubs are showing color. Fortunately, ...

Pentas, lantana, verbena, zinnia, salvias (many different species and cultivars), Mexican butterfly weed (Asclepias curassavica) and buddleia are excellent flowering plants to attract butterflies to ...

Even at 20 yards away, the monster black butterfly stood out like a sore thumb. I'd never seen this exotic inky beauty with hits vivid yellow stripe before. It clung unmoving to the avalanche of white ...