If someone took 75% of your food away, you wouldn't be a happy camper. But when you grow invasive butterfly bushes and other plants that provide only nectar, that's what you're doing to birds and ...

Butterflies fancy them, and so do gardeners looking for desert-hardy substitutes for fragrant lilacs. While this plant delivers in the lilac look-alike department, I’m sorry to say that its delicate ...

Whenever the subject of providing plants for butterflies comes up, things like daisies, asters and milkweeds are among the first plants suggested. Sometimes shrubs such as Buddleia (butterfly bush) ...