My blue butterfly bush was already more three feet tall, and the garden area had room for a red and white border. For that, I selected white penta and red salvia plants.

Other plants, such as the aptly-named butterfly bush produce flowers that attract plenty of species of pollinator, ... Keep Reading: 20 Blue Flowers for Your Garden. skhoward - Getty Images.

This fall and winter, I’ve been going back to look at some of my really, really favorite plants that I’ve talked about over the years as host of Southern Gardening ...

The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 ...

Which brings me to ice plant, a non-native, invasive plant that has been used over the years for erosion control by misguided Californians. Butterfly-wise, it is an enemy of all that is good and holy.

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Ottman told CNN the Fender's blue butterfly is unique because it prefers to lay its eggs on one host plant, Kincaid's lupine. This makes the survival of the butterfly and the plant deeply intertwined.

As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, the Xerces blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation. New research signals a warning for insect conservation as ...

The El Segundo Blue Butterfly has been endangered since the 1970s. ... seacliff buckwheat, we were able to populate the garden with El Segundo Blue Butterflies,” says Wolff.

The butterfly’s resurgence, the USDFW said, is also helping with the revival of endangered plants that are pollinated by the Fender’s blue, like the Kincaid’s lupine and the Willamette daisy.