Popular Florida garden plant revives near-extinct butterfly population The Atala butterfly, thought near-extinct for decades, has returned to the Floridian mainland ...

Tropical sage (Salvia coccinea) is a vibrant Florida native perfect for an island butterfly garden and an interesting ...

Mary Ann’s dedication and the scientific efforts at Disney illustrate how community action and innovation can unite to protect monarchs.

“That allows sun to penetrate to the forest floor, creates sort of an abundance of new growth of the host plants of the butterfly, and also enables , sort of nectar, resources to sort of proliferate,” ...

Beside a sign labeled “monarch waystation,” the 62-year-old volunteer mingled with guests looking to purchase native Florida plants, including two species of milkweed. And where there is ...

Frosted elfin butterfly caterpillars were released in North Florida as part of a reintroduction program. The FWC, along with partner organizations, bred the caterpillars and released them into a ...

Roger Hammer shows a photo of when he received the first Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award presented by the Florida Native Plant Society in 1982, a few years after he discovered the atala butterfly ...

A crowd of over 300 people gathered on Friday for the annual Florida Museum of Natural History’s spring plant sale. Before the gates opened at 10 a.m. a line was already forming around the ...

July in the Garden for Central Florida Your Community in Brief: Lake County events and news, starting June 26 Volusia County things to do, starting June 27 ...

Skipper is the plant sale chair for the Polk County Master Gardeners.She was previewing the organization’s semi-annual plant sale, which is this Saturday, April 26.. The Blue Butterfly pea ...

Helen Laurence’s pond garden is shown on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, at her Lake Worth Beach home, one of the stops on the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society’s Native ...