Get Neil Sperry's gardening answers on yellow butterfly vine propagation, pruning figs and abelias, fertilizing winter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, most folks who celebrate it nowadays call it May Day. Beltane is the ancient Druid holiday that comes on the first day of May and marks the halfway point of astronomical spring. So that means ...

Find out when to prune a butterfly bush and how to make the right cuts to enjoy more flowers on this fast-growing shrub. One of the fastest-growing flowering shrubs, a butterfly bush can easily put on ...

Gardening Ask the Garden Guy: Can you grow a butterfly bush in a container? Plus, tips for keeping those hungry rabbits out. Send your gardening and landscaping questions to Address@globe.com.

This year I decided to add some dwarf buddleia into my arsenal of pollinator plants. The idea of 3-foot tall or shorter buddleias or butterfly bushes seemed like just what the doctor ordered to be ...