Georgia Parkinson Hill is a horticulturist, garden designer, and owner of the native landscape design firm Beautyberry Gardens in Atlanta, Georgia. Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to ...

If someone took 75% of your food away, you wouldn’t be a happy camper. But when you grow invasive butterfly bushes and other plants that provide only nectar, that’s what you're doing to birds and ...

Q. We’re hoping to plant a garden that will attract butterflies. Growing up, we had a butterfly bush I loved because it always seemed to have butterflies on it. One of my neighbors says that butterfly ...