How to Garden for Ground Beetles (Night Shift Pest Control)
Most gardeners know the daytime pest-control team: lady beetles, lacewings, parasitic wasps. But when the sun goes down, a different…
Best Coneflower Varieties for Wildlife
Coneflowers are the workhorses of wildlife gardens — their big daisy heads feed bees and butterflies all summer, and if…
How to Attract Bluebirds with Nesting Boxes
Bluebirds — the eastern, western, and mountain species — are cavity nesters that have lost most of their natural nesting…
Best Native Milkweed Species for Your Zone
Milkweed is the only food monarch caterpillars can eat, which makes it the single most important plant a butterfly gardener…
How to Design a Four-Season Pollinator Garden
A four-season pollinator garden is not about growing flowers all winter — it is about never having a dead month….
Best Hoverfly-Attracting Plants (Aphid Predators)
Hoverflies — also called flower flies or syrphids — are the garden’s underappreciated hired guns. The adults look like small…
How to Make Seed Bombs for Pollinator Patches
Seed bombs — little balls of clay, compost, and seed — are the classic tool of guerrilla gardeners, and they…
Best Pollinator Plants for Clay Soil
Clay soil gets a bad reputation, and it is true that it drains slowly, bakes hard in summer, and is…
How to Start a Butterfly Garden in a Small Yard
You do not need acres to raise butterflies — a sunny corner, a few pots, or a narrow border along…
The Complete Pollinator Garden Checklist for Spring
Spring is when the pollinator garden is won or lost. The plants you start now determine whether your yard buzzes…