Butterflies flying around various flowers in a garden in the summer - Borchee/Getty Images Butterflies love visiting gardens filled with native plants that help them do their job as pollinators and ...

The best hardy geranium varieties (aka cranesbills) provide months of color and effective ground cover. In the last 50 or 60 years, these dependable jewel-hued bloomers have become some of our most ...

Wild geranium is a hardy perennial found growing naturally in the woodlands of North America. If you have a shady yard or dark borders beneath a large tree, this is the plant to grow. Wild geraniums, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. creeping thyme; blue plumbago; hardy geraniums Nature does fast-growing ground cover plants very well. Look at any large area of ...

Tired of patchy grass in the shade? These hardy lawn alternatives — barren strawberry, cranesbill, and Epimedium — are robust, flowering, and low-maintenan ...

This award-winning, pot-friendly purple perennial keeps blooming over and over again, and with the right growing conditions, ...

In landscaping, ground covers are a wonderful tool that are often chosen for aesthetic reasons. These plantings can be used to introduce a new color to an area that needs a lift or to introduce a ...

Butterflies love visiting gardens filled with native plants that help them do their job as pollinators and offer colorful, fragrant flowers with plenty of nectar. Luckily, there's an abundance of ...