Dustie Bourgeois discovered a variegated fritillary butterfly caterpillar munching on her passion flower vine at her home in Cape Story by the Sea in Virginia Beach. Then, three more. She checked on ...

A pretty fritillary butterfly on a green leaf - Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way ...

Just a day or two after “borrowing” some small passion vine plants from the garden of a friend to establish in my own backyard, holes turned up in the leaves. The natural move when something like that ...

Years ago, I grew all sorts of vines, liking the idea of vertical gardening when I ran out of horizontal ground space. One of those vines was Purple Passionflower, or Passiflora incarnata. I planted ...

Beautiful gulf fritillary butterflies with underwings like stained glass looked like they were making up for time lost in the rainy weather by laying eggs in both Trista Imrich’s and Danas Sizemore’s ...

Butterflies are surprisingly abundant in Houston in August. Green grasses provide butterfly larvae plenty of food, and flowering plants like lantana give adult butterflies ample blossoms for nectar. A ...

Passion is a curious concept. It combines intensity and desire, in its purest sense, to create an obsessive need. There is, figuratively and literally, a fine and not always obvious line between ...

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If you're keen to get your pollinator garden off to a good start, mass-planting wildflowers early in spring is the way to go. Just imagine a pretty, meadow-like patch in your yard with colorful blooms ...