And so is parking at the Houston Museum of Natural Science garage with the purchase of $20 of butterfly host plants. Learn how to transform your backyard into a magical garden, alive with color 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 ...

Georgia Parkinson Hill is a horticulturist, garden designer, and owner of the native landscape design firm Beautyberry Gardens in Atlanta, Georgia. Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to ...

Cockrell Butterfly Center fall plant sale: 9 a.m.-noon (or until plants are gone) on the seventh level of the Houston Museum of Natural Science parking garage, 5555 Hermann Park; hmns.org. Free.

Butterfly bushes are considered invasive plants in many areas of the United States. Native plants like asters and zinnias are equally attractive to butterflies and other pollinators. If planting a ...

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 ...

The butterfly bush has all of the attributes of a dream plant. It is easy to grow, produces an abundance of fragrant blooms that bring in hordes of butterflies and is drought-tolerant. But it also has ...