Flowering sweet Joe pye weed with groups of small pink blooms and green foliage. - Cynthia Shirk/Shutterstock While deer are essential to a balanced ecosystem, these herbivores primarily feed on ...

It’s commonly called a weed, but it’s actually a perennial that brings beautiful color to pollinator gardens. In Grow Like A Pro, Horticulture Agent Taylor Jones tells us what makes the Joe Pye Weed ...

Seeing imposing natives like ironweed, Joe Pye weed, and milkweed in a natural setting can help gardeners picture their role at home, and Cleveland Metroparks including North Chagrin, Rocky River, ...

The cornerstone of my first garden was, and still is, a weed. A giant of a plant, known to thrive in sun or semi-shade if the soil (or hard clay in my case) tends to be damp, Eupatorium purporium ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If Ohio’s prairies and wetlands had a celebrity, it ...

Joe-Pye weed is an attractive native plant with an interesting history behind its common name. Joe-Pye weed is a pollinator-attracting native plant with an interesting history behind its common name.

What makes a weed a weed? The answer is a little complicated. At the most basic level, a weed could be any plant growing where it’s not wanted to grow, according to the Bureau of Land Management. By ...