Awesome! Would love as many as you can spare. Here is my current seed list SEEDLIST 2016 *Woodland seed is moist packed and chilled... Actaea pachypoda-Doll's Eyes Actaea rubra-Red Baneberry Allium cernuum-Nodding Onion Amsonia tabernaemontana-Willowleaf bluestar, Anemonella thalictroides-Rue Anemone Arisaema flavum-Small Yellow Jack in the Pulpit *Not native Arisaema triphyllum-Jack-in-the-Pulpit Asarum canadense-Wild Ginger Asclepias incarnata-Swamp Milkweed Cacalia /Arnoglossum atriplicifolia-Pale Indian Plantain Campsis radicans "Flava"-Yellow Trumpet Vine Campsis r. Summer Snowstorm-Variegated Trumpet Vine Caulophyllum thalictroides-Blue Cohosh Chamaelirium luteum Cimicifuga/Actaea racemosa-Black Cohosh Clematis heracleifolia *not native Clematis viorna-Leatherflower Clematis virginiana-Virgin's Bower Dodecatheon meadia-Shooting Star Echinacea paradoxa-Yellow Coneflower Echinacea p. Magnus-Large Flowered Coneflower Liatris aspera-Rough Blazing Star Liatris pychnostachya Liatris scariosa Lobelia siphilitica-Great Blue Lobelia Monarda fitulosa rare WHITE form Phytolacca americana variegata-Variegated Pokeweed Ratibida columnaris-Mexican Hat Rudbeckia triloba (YELLOW) Salvia coccinea-Texas Red Sage Salvia lyrata-Lyre-leaf Sage Sanguinaria canadensis-Bloodroot Senna hepecarpa Silphium laciniatum-Compass Plant Symphyotrichum novae-angliae-NE Aster Thermopsis caroliniana-False Yellow Lupine Tricyrtis hirta "Blue Wonder" *not native Trillium erectum beige form Trillium erectum RED form Trillium flexipes Trillium grandiflorum Trillum luteum Trillium pusillum Trillium recurvatum-Prairie Trillium Trillium sulcatum Eco Black Magic Verbena stricta-Hoary Vervain Verbesina alternifolia-Wingstem Vernonia altissima/gigantea-GIANT Ironweed Vernonia baldwinii-West Coast Ironweed Vernonia glauca-Dwarf Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis

Hi Mary- Many western milkweeds naturally grow in poorer soils, A. fascicularis being one of them. Don't stress over fertilizing, or lack thereof. I feed mine monthly with a 10-5-5 type fertilizer or 20-20-20 until they reach a size I'm comfortable with. Most times, I feed them with whatever is handy sitting in the shed. After that, I fertilize by eye: if they look like they don't need it, they don't get any. Liquid or dry, makes no diff. Don't overburden yourself or overthink what you're going to feed westerns; they'll resent whatever you give them if given too much anyway. This is a photo of one of my large fascicularis. I have some smaller ones I'm growing for a butterfly garden project.

Lena, so sorry you weren't in time to pick up some Purple Milkweed. I was gone for most of the summer so wasn't here to tend to or observe my in-ground plants. Many stalks of the Purple MW still have a few tatty looking leaves on the tips but for all intents and purposes, they are gone. I don't know if they would have fared any better if I'd been here. I only realized this spring that I even had Purple Milkweed. Can't remember starting and planting out seedlings but lo and behold, the first blooms produced by these plants were certainly Purple Milkweed bloom heads. Although the blooms were worked over feverishly by the wild bee's, no seed pods this year. :-( The little seedlings I had which were so healthy looking when I left are pretty much gone. I don't know if the roots are still alive. Some seedlings still had a few tatty looking leaves on them when I first got home so I'm hopeful it is just their time to decline for the season. I believe, based on the plant activity this spring, that this milkweed spreads much like the common milkweed. Unfortunately, most of the native milkweeds in my garden look pretty rough before my growing season is done. The little A perennis is still going strong, healthy and blooming so I'm planning on planting a lot more for next year. And I will be growing the Mexican AKA Tropical milkweed again next year for the blooms. So many little insects in my garden nectar on their continuous blooms. Just have to be diligent about squishing the aphids. :-) Mary

7The problem with deleting the autcorrect was I had to learn how to spell again lol. Why can't they make one with all the botanical names in its memory? https://www.growmilkweedplants.com/michigan.html There seems to be a close relationship between milkweeds and mycorrhizae fungi. I'm using the fungi on all my milkweeds. https://www.mpgranch.com/dispatches/milkweed-fungal-perspective