A few years ago, the United Nations reported on nature’s unprecedented decline in biodiversity. Since then, finding ways to give plants, insects and animals a boost has been a priority for many around ...

Keystone planting is devoted to the flowers, shrubs, trees, and other plants that support many other organisms living in a particular ecosystem. A healthy garden contains native species, but to truly ...

Having native plants in a garden can create a good environment for caterpillars, which are hearty food for birds Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons under CC By-SA 2.0 As a boy growing up in the 1960s ...

In Wisconsin, some keystone plants stand above all the others: oak trees. Keystone oaks for the Dairy State include white, bur, swamp white, chinkapin and black. In fact, the white oak Quercus alba is ...

Native plants like purple coneflower are known to provide better support for wildlife than nonnatives in garden spaces. Native plants like purple coneflower are known to provide better support for ...

Author and University of Delaware professor Dr. Douglas Tallamy has been called the “godfather of the native-plant movement” for igniting what’s become the leading mantra in today’s gardening world.