Skip butterfly bush—these native plants attract more pollinators in your region.

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Native shrubs offer many benefits to the home landscape.

Country Living is encouraging gardeners to replace butterfly bushes, which are invasive in several U.S. states and offer limited reproductive support for pollinators. Drawing from Elise Howard’s ...

Q. I have a burning bush in my landscape that I have trained as a small tree by removing the lower branches. It turns a deep red color in the fall. Is this a plant that can tolerate being trained as a ...

That scheme, and others like it in NSW and federally, grant “credits” to landowners who promise to protect and improve the native habitat on their properties in perpetuity. Those credits can then be ...