This is not even half of what i have planted so far but i just got tired typing them up! Shooting Star Clammweed Showy Trefoil American Bellflower Eastern Bluestar Prairie Dock Clasping Milkweed Common Milkweed Butterfly Weed Swamp Milkweed Green Antelopehorn Yucca Wild Bergamot Gray-Headed Coneflower Spotted Touch-Me-Not Black Raspberry Indian Woodoat Groundnut Great Coneflower Butterfly Bush Wingstem Missouri Primrose Cutleaf Grapefern Blue Skullcap Copper Iris Tall Larkspur Royal Catchfly Smooth Sumac Forget-Me-Not Queen of the Prairie Mexican Tulip Poppy Tall Coreopsis WIld Pea Short's Sedge Lanceleaf Tickseed Yellow Foxglove Willow Herb Datura Double Purple Scaly Blazing Star Downy Gentian Large Flowered Beardtongue Wild Hollyhock Prairie Smoke Tall Meadow Rue Groundplum Milkvetch Stiff Tickseed American Licorice Trailing Fuzzy Bean Cassia Partridge Pea Fireweed Birdfoot Trefoil Lewis Flax Red Onion Sundew Tennesse Coneflower Downy Sunflower Chicory Oxeye Trumpet Creeper Joepye Weed Welsh Poppy Indian Physic Evening Primrose False Foxglove Mexican Hat Ground Cherry Cardinal Flower Wild Columbine Poppy Mallow Clayton's Sweetroot Purslane Stinging Nettle St. Johns Wort Wild Petunia Wild Leek Cleavers White Rien Orchid Bottlebrush Grass Dotted Blazing Star Yelloweyed Grass Blueeyed Grass Spanish Flag Browneyed Susan Great Lobelia Wild Hydrangea Foxglove Beardtongue Swamp Vervain Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Scarlet Gillia Lyre Leafed Sage Gray's Sedge Partidge Berry Woodland Tobacco Jacob's Ladder Prickly Pear Indian Paintbrush Blue Lettuce

I fertilize my tropical milkweed a little, so it gets to be about 5' - 6' tall. Once it gets over about 4 1/2' or 5' tall, I quit fertilizing it, because if it gets much taller than that, it'll bend over to the ground after a rain and need to be staked. It gets about 4' wide for me. You don't have to prune the plants after the cats eat the leaves - and they'll eat ALL of them! - because Asclepias curassavica/tropical milkweed resprouts on its own. I usually do cut it back to about 4' tall, however, and fertilize it a little again to help get it going again quickly for more cats. Tropical milkweed likes a lot of sun, but mine doesn't get a whole day's worth, because there are woods on one side of my garden. I'd say it gets about 3/4 of a day's sun. If you're in Seattle, where I assume it's much cooler than here in summer, I'd imagine yours would need as much sun as possible. You can raise tropical milkweed in pots and bring those pots in during the winter, but I did that with several plants this past winter (4 or 5 plants) and only two survived. I don't know if the roots stayed too wet, or they need more heat than they got. I don't have a (heated) greenhouse. Tropical milkweed works great for me, makes copious amounts of seeds, I even find volunteer seedlings on the ground near the plants. Most of us on the Butterfly Forum are in the hot/humid Southeast or very hot Texas, so I'd be interested to know how yours does in Seattle. Keep us posted! Sherry

In my gardens some of the perennials that have a nice scent are Mother of Thyme, lavender, crab apple tree blossoms (right now in full bloom with hundreds of bees in them), grape hycinths, iris, jonquils, tulips, oriental lilies, peonies, lily of the valley, Royal Standard hosta, lilacs, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Hi Mary, Hope this finds you doing well and that you had a very good growing season. These seeds did really well. They have been in flower for the past three months. I've never had a milkweed bloom so much. The first batch never did germinate. I have had tons of insect visits during this time but only two small pods that have not really developed much. I had three Monarch caterpillars on the plants and they pretty much stripped(ate) most of the foliage but the plants put out more leaves after the caterpillars molted.. I still have them in a 12" pot but will probably divide them once they stop flowering and plant them in the garden. I was wondering how your seed production has been this year? I would like to get a bunch of seed from somewhere to grow and distribute to all the folks here in my area who are into this like you and I. Any chance you might have some to share again or know someone who does and/or somewhere I can purchase some. Thanks for any help. Regards, Mark