Bees pollinate our crops and make it possible to live in a world with honey. Invite them into your garden with these annuals and perennials.

Adding wildflowers to your garden is one of the easiest ways to create a vibrant, low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly space. Wildflowers enhance biodiversity, provide critical nectar and pollen ...

Not all commercial wildflower seed mixes are created equal in the eyes of our insect overlords. Wildflower seed mix test plots. (Copyright by Natasha de Vere ...

EAST LANSING, MI. – Every pollen-producing flowerpot helps support bees and butterflies, even those in cities surrounded by more concrete than natural landscapes. Researcher Kevin Matteson spent years ...

Villages can support many pollinators. simple spaces like gardens, parks, and wild plants provide food and nesting sites for ...

Bees don't perceive color the same way that we do. Find out the flower color to avoid if you want to attract bees, and which ...

MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...

When summer monsoon rains have been generous, fall-blooming wildflowers can be downright spectacular, but even during parched years like 2020 has been, many desert plants are nevertheless able to ...

MANISTEE TOWNSHIP, MI – This wildflower trail weaves through a natural pollinator habitat, inviting visitors to delight in the sights and sounds of bees and butterflies flitting between flowers.