Yes Becky I am greatly interested. I am unable to email tonight because that is down also, I will try again tomorrow night. Or you can contact me at orcascove@aol.com

It sure does have the wrong title. Weird. Cameron - Thanks for the suggestion of Cinderella. I'll check it out. Mindy - I'm not sure if the flowers are quite as white as David. They aren't cream, but maybe a softer white. Like all white flowers, they really stand out on cloudy days. About the only minus would be it's aggressive reseeding. That's easily controlled if you deadhead, but sometimes I miss a seedpod and end up with a lot of strays growing dead-smack in the middle of some other plant. Kevin Kevin

Hi, Loris and everyone, I am glad you brought up the idea of pruning the MWs for fresh new growth. I never hear anyone talking about it on BF forums so I sort of had to go by trial and error. I like to try to keep my Incarnatas in bloom 'til the big onslaught of Monarchs in August and September here in Ohio and it took me a while to put together a strategy that I think might work. Here's what I try to do with my Milkweeds (incarnatas): I cut back just part of each milk weed plant. Maybe every other stem, or just the back/front of each depending on how it is growing in the garden. I try to leave about a foot of stem or more there, and also try to cut just above a node to try to get a nice branching. That way I have some of the mature plant growing and also can stimulate new growth and tender leaves. I do this with most of my perennials and I should imagine it would work with your A. incarnata too. When I did this last time I went ahead and made some rooted cuttings: I took the pruned off parts, trimmed them to a node on the bottom of each stem, left about 5 inches of stem, took off most of the leaves except maybe the top 2, then dipped them into a little Roottone and stuck them into a glass of water and left them on the kitchen counter. Now I have a 10 rooted cuttings growing in the garden. This was easy and a new 'trick' that I was happy to learn about. I wish we got some of your volunteers you pull for weeds! I never have enough milkweed. It took me a while to figure out how to work with the MWs to get the most out of them here in our growing environment in southwestern Ohio.

I'm looking for some. I would prefer this year but if you think what you have is viable, I might take it. Would you be interested in a swap? I can harvest some Lobelia Cardinalis and mail you a packet of this year's seed. I specifically want it for aiding the butterflies. This is for going in margins wetlands behind my house. No pesticides. There was a beaver dam down the street that flooded the area and killed all the scrub trees and brush. The town tore the dam down and the beaver didn't rebuild it so I have a big area of wet soil with full to part sun out back now. -l2t