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 ...

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 ...

The same plant that promises to turn a backyard into a butterfly paradise now sits on invasive species watchlists in several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A leading wildlife ecologist wants you to think about your property - no matter how big or small - as an important link in your ...

Help pollinators by growing native plants instead of invasive butterfly bush ...

A butterfly bush isn't just a pretty shrub for your yard, it can also help attract pollinators, like butterflies.

Q. We’re hoping to plant a garden that will attract butterflies. Growing up, we had a butterfly bush I loved because it always seemed to have butterflies on it. One of my neighbors says that butterfly ...

Today is Q&A day. Q: I have a butterfly bush that has gone berserk. It is over 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and is too big for my small backyard. But I love it. Can I keep trimming it back or should ...

The woolly butterfly bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) is a near-native from the neighboring Chihuahuan desert. It’s a great pollinator plant, has attractive grey-green leaves and bright orange clusters ...

* What it is: Just about everyone short of discerning horticulturists thinks the chaste tree is a butterfly bush when they see one blooming this time of year. It’s easy to understand because chaste ...