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 ...

Blooming now in moist, sunny spots in Georgia’s woods, meadows and roadsides are tall, showy, purplish-pink wildflowers known as Joe-Pye weeds, some of the state’s most iconic wild plants of late ...

Not just a weed -- great in a garden, too Magnet for bees and butterflies In bloom when little else is A reporter once asked me, "If you could convince all garden centers to sell one perennial, what ...

Along moist ditches, streambanks and country roadsides, Joe-Pye-weed towers gracefully with purplish-pink plumes attracting scores of butterflies. Like goldenrod, Joe-Pye-weed is a sign that summer is ...

In Yellowstone National Park, as you drive from one scenic point to another, you’ll notice cars pulled to the side of the road. This is a clear signal that something of extraordinary interest has been ...

So who is Joe and why is there a weed named after him? With no definitive answers, the most prevalent story is that it refers to a Native American from Colonial times named Joe Pye. It is said he used ...

Joe-Pye weed hybrids are suitable for a cottage garden or a backyard wildlife habitat. Selections have been developed for the back of the perennial bed, where they tower over most plants, or the front ...

The Russell-Brasstown National Scenic Highway in Georgia is 50 miles of majesty. Our family drove it this weekend and I have an unquenchable thirst to go back. If the mountains and streams weren’t ...