Instead of letting your old plant pots turn into clutter in your garage or yard, you can turn them into one of these affordable DIY bird feeders.

There’s something quietly thrilling about planting a seed. You press it into the soil, water it in, and then you wait. For a ...

When seeds hit the soil, hope for sprouts feels fragile when a flock of birds swoops in like tiny green-thumbed thieves. They seem innocent, even charming, until they turn freshly planted rows into ...

Before they provide summertime benefits like shade, these trees will attract an array of colorful birds to your yard by ...

Open-pollinated: A plant that has been naturally pollinated. Open-pollinated seeds can be saved from year to year and planted to produce offspring that “grow true,” or hold the same characteristics as ...

With trumpet-shaped blooms and tolerance to heat and drought, this flowering plant is beloved by hummingbirds due to its ...

Have you ever seen a bird drink from a cup? I have, but the cup was made out of leaves, and it was attached to one of my favorite native plants: the cup plant. This plant really has it all — it is an ...

We feed birds all summer long, and the grass and flowers near the feeder tend to look bad. The grass dies due to the broken seeds that fall and an ugly green leafy weed grows instead. Is there any ...

Question. I have an older orange bird of paradise plant in a container that gets some sun and shade that has not bloomed in recent years. What can I do to help it bloom? Answer. Maybe your plant would ...

We may associate robins with Christmas, but you can actually see and hear this popular red-breasted bird in your garden year-round. As the colder weather begins to bite, their primary food sources – ...

A snatch of song, a flash of movement, the twitch of a tail: Birds bring life and charm to the garden all year long, if you make it a welcoming place. “Some gardens are more bird-friendly than others, ...

In the rain-starved deserts of coastal Peru, tiny patches surprisingly rich in plant life dot the landscape. Burrowing birds may be responsible, scientists say. Mounds of sand shoveled out by ...