A pretty fritillary butterfly on a green leaf - Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way ...

Passion is a curious concept. It combines intensity and desire, in its purest sense, to create an obsessive need. There is, figuratively and literally, a fine and not always obvious line between ...

Years ago, I grew all sorts of vines, liking the idea of vertical gardening when I ran out of horizontal ground space. One of those vines was Purple Passionflower, or Passiflora incarnata. I planted ...

Maypop flowers aren’t necessary to attract the butterflies to lay eggs. After about two weeks, I was surprised to find 13 caterpillars on one plant! All in all, 19 thin, dark red-orange caterpillars ...

A large, orange-ish colored butterfly began staying around our garden a few days ago. At first glance, I thought it was a monarch since a few of them have been around for the past week or so. Looking ...

FLOWER lovers flocked to the countryside this weekend for the annual display of Oxfordshire's extraordinary county flower. The snake's head fritillary, brought to England from mainland Europe sometime ...

It grows from a small bulb, and has dainty leaves and slender stems topped by nodding bell-shaped flowers. There's also a rarer pearly-white form, whose petals are faintly patterned in squares ...

If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way to go. Just imagine a pretty, meadow-like patch in your yard with colorful blooms ...