Plant pale purple coneflower in perennial gardens or informal prairie plantings for spring blooms, bees and butterflies

Gather seeds from your garden in fall, and you'll have a selection of plants for next year — without spending a dime

Stately New York ironweed attracts pollinators with its blooms at the end of summer and birds with its seeds in fall

Be especially water wise this month as you sow seeds, tend to your lawn and plant edibles, grasses and flowers

So long, freezing temperatures. It's time to kick off spring planting, lavish attention on lawns and sprinkle seeds to your heart's content

Plant these 5 native species to bring beauty to the garden — and pollen to the insects — from June through August

The American goldfinch is a bright-in-the-summer visitor and one of the only vegetarian songbirds. Here's how to give them a healthy habitat

You can design a natural garden that doesn’t rely on covering your soil with wood and bark mulch

The garden season never ends when you think beyond summer blooms

Watch a world of insects dine on this Midwest native, an easy bloomer that washes the garden (and your skin) in scents of cool mint