Even though the drought this summer has been a huge setback for my garden, crisping up the lilacs and other shrubbery and will most likely result in a sub-par foliage season, one flower that has ...

What flowers do hummingbirds like? Turn your garden into a pollinator haven with colorful hummingbird flowers such as bee ...

From watching butterflies float in the sun to seeing bees zoom from flower-to-flower in the search for pollen and nectar, there is nothing as peaceful as a garden teeming with wildlife. One visitor ...

You know that weird, fidgety feeling you get at the end of winter? The beds are bare, the soil’s still cold, and the garden ...

Every outdoor space is better if you can count hummingbirds among your wildlife visitors. Not only are they beautiful to look at but they help the ecosystem too. One of the major pollinating birds in ...

The botanical easy-button has been pressed for this one. This is one of the most easily recognized of all American wildflowers. Whether you know it or not, you’ll surely be seeing red. Cardinal flower ...

Tom Houser photographed a female hummingbird foraging on cardinal flowers in his backyard in Carolanne Farms in Virginia Beach. A piping plover searches for invertebrates along the beach at Back Bay ...

The floodplain of the stream behind my house is currently dotted with the bright red blooms of the cardinal flower. Watching for them out back or as I drive along the many brooks, streams and rivers ...

Witnessing the agile wing motion of a tiny hummingbird, radiant in color and unbelievably teeny in size, is nothing short of mesmerizing. Beyond their fascinating, fairy-like presence, hummingbirds ...

The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.