Need courage? Look to butterflies. They live their short lives to the fullest after completely transforming themselves from a crawling caterpillar to a winged work of art. Some migrate hundreds of ...

Butterflies in the garden add much more than their beauty (though we certainly don't mind that magical fairy garden quality!). When a butterfly swarms a garden, it only has a few things in mind—food, ...

The brilliantly blue pipevine swallowtail, the ruby-throated hummingbird and the American bumblebee are all native pollinators you can find right here in Kentucky. The American bumblebee, in ...

Grace Stoll was on her way out of Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden enclosure recently when one of the creatures on display jumped on her back. “Get a picture,” the Minnesota woman instructed her ...

Recently we had a speaker at our Linden Garden Club who spoke about creating a wildlife-friendly garden which inspired me to treat the subject in this column. I have had good and bad experiences with ...

In a time not long ago, in a place not far away, there lived a man who loved to draw. He could take an ordinary pencil and a common, work-horse piece of paper and make something come alive. It was his ...

Grace Stoll was on her way out of Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden enclosure recently when one of the creatures on display jumped on her back. “Get a picture,” the Minnesota woman instructed her ...