Repost from @oroeoboeococoao • It’s time to plant for monarch butterflies! This video is a rundown of what we know about gardening for monarchs....
Listen to this episode from Let's Argue About Plants on Spotify. Here at Let’s Argue About Plants we’re big fans of native plants. Our gardens are filled with them and for good reason: native plants are essential to the preservation and health of the local ecology. Aside from their benefits to the environment, many native plants are built to thrive in the conditions where you live, too. Today, we’re talking about native alternatives to certain less-desirable plants. These undesirables might be invasive, or spread obnoxiously, or perhaps they are just prone to certain insects and diseases. Instead, we’ll give you a native plant that is a far superior option. And, don’t be fooled by our Connecticut location, we feature plants suitable for locales outside of the Northeast. Expert testimony: Ulrich Lorimer is the director of horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Framingham, MA.
The Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is an annual event that draws thousands of nature enthusiasts (“pilgrims”) to attend expert-guided nature walks, hikes, and ...
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society The July Plant of the Month, Common Milkweed, is a lovely, robust, herbaceous perennial festooned with showy clusters of flowers from June to August. A member of the Milkweed genus, Asclepias, it often gets a bad rap for its rhizomatous roots that can spread aggressively; however, this…
James Faupel on Instagram: "Stop and look before you kill your thistle! It’s that time of year again to share the reasons why our native thistles are so important for wildlife. They have unfortunately been given a bad reputation due to the invasive exotic thistles that have become problematic and bloom earlier in the year. How do you tell our native thistle species apart from the exotics aside from their bloom period? Well, almost all of our Missouri native thistles have a white underside to their leaves (only one native has green undersides but you’re not likely to come across this species outside of higher quality habitat). You can see this white underside represented in the third and fourth photos of this series. Our native thistles provide resources for so many beneficial insects,
Behind my garden of native plants, one scrappy perennial holds its own among the tangle of goldenrod stalks and blackberry brambles. Its swaying flowerheads buzz with a throng of insects: golden digger and great black wasps, bumblebees, sweat bees, butterflies and beetles. This pollinator magnet is mountain mint.
Native Sunflowers provide a cheerful goodbye to summer. With species for the sun, shade, and shoreline these native wildflowers provide a splash of...
Listen to this episode from In Defense of Plants Podcast on Spotify. Plant defense compounds are great for the plants that produce them as they can ward off herbivore attacks. But what happens when a group of specialists evolves a way to utilize said compounds? Such is the case for milkweeds (Apocynaceae) and milkweed butterflies (Danaina). A long evolutionary history together kicked off an evolutionary arms race driven by chemical ecology that is turning into a case of chemical de-escalation for many plants within this family. Join me and Dr. Tanya Livshultz as we explore the links between phylogeny, herbivory, and milkweed diversity. This episode was produced in part by Robert, Thomas, Valerie, Joan, Mohsin Kazmi Photography, Cathy, Simon, Nick, Paul, Charis, EJ, Laura, Sung, NOK, Stephen, Heidi, Kristin, Luke, Sea, Shannon, Thomas, Will, Jamie, Waverly, Brent, Tanner, Rick, Kazys, Dorothy, Katherine, Emily, Theo, Nichole, Paul, Karen, Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
On September 24, DCR-Natural Heritage Field Botanist Jennifer Stanley and Vegetation Ecologist Joey Thompson found previously unknown populations of...
The defining feature of the Compass plant is that it orients its leaves to the North/South axis, an invaluable navigational tool for early prairie...
There are many species of columbine (Aquilegia) but only one of them is native to the eastern US: this striking, red-flowering one. Although it can...
Listen to this episode from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't on Spotify. (Re-upload because the first file was corrupted and cut out at 3 min...) Probably the episode I'm most excited about so far - a talk with the kind, humble and brilliant Bruce Baldwin, an expert in the largest (second in number of species only to the Orchid Family) and most ecologically successful plant family in the world, the Asteraceae, also known as "composites" because of their composite flowerheads, consisting of many tiny "florets" (which are the true flowers). We cover a lot of stuff here, and the last five minutes of the episode seem to wrap up a potential answer to the modern human predicament that we're in. But prior to that, we of course cover the incredible ecology and evolution (and genetics!) of the most successful plant family on Planet Earth. Photo in the thumbnail is one of the "dinosaur sunflowers", Leucheria runcinata, from the High Andes of Chile.
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The Monarch Joint Venture is a partnership of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and academic programs that are working together…
Name change alert! We're changing this milkweeds common name on our products from Swamp to Rose milkweed to better help people understand where it can...
Listen to Grow Milkweed Plants on Spotify. In support of growing milkweed plants I am sharing the value that native milkweed has for monarch butterflies. Your host, Brad Grimm, created a website dedicated to education about milkweed. Visit GrowMilkweedPlants.com Get started taking action to find and grow milkweed. I'll warn you in advance, you may fall in love with this plant. The podcast dedicated to all things milkweed. Topics include Asclepias, Monarch butterflies, milkweed, gardening and pollinators.
Pollinators like the Monarch butterfly have been an icon of the insect world, now due to habitat loss their population is threatened. All is not lost,...
