I would be interested in the milk weed seed I have Senna variety Christmas very pretty show of butter yellow flowers or orchid tree seed deep pink

Thanks Dbarron....problem w/that is that A. syriaca around here (mostly on roadside or along RR bank) has already flowered....most asclepias is in the "podding" (is that a word?) stage so I think these plants have possibly missed the boat....they are at least 3 yrs old and have never flowered. Two are fairly well shaded but the third w/the shoots at the bottom is in full sun AND there are 2-3 patches of vigourously flowering A. tuberosa nearby growing under the same conditions.

byrdlady, it's so good to hear this! where i grew up in western PA therew were syriaca grwing everywhere roadside, with nearly every patch having monarch colonies. now the milkweed is less common, because of more mowing, and monarchs are much less common, even up there. i've been trying to get syriaca going here, too. i have some nice patches of tuberosum after working on it for 8 or 9 yrs, and have grown currasvica from seed before. recently got some otherr ones (don't recall off the top), and just this yr, noticed 3 cats on my tuberosum. so maybe it does take a while for them to come. ralph gave me some potted currasavica, which i hope to overwinter in the cool basement, and some cats, too. hoping they'll come back in spring and lay eggs. the last one is making a chrysalis now. your expeience heartens me that i wasn't doing anything wrong. tammy

It's worth giving it more time, but I'd also get more seed in some dirt somewhere to hedge my bets. Do you have seed? Check over at the exchange forum at the "adopt a milkweed newbie" thread. I think they have multiple threads due to high number of posts. Martha