Milkweed ID
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Comments (3)Many thanks for the helpful replies. I broke a leaf off and got milky sap....See MoreMilkweed ID?
Comments (11)Most of my A. curassavicas come back each year from the root. They are in raised beds, and if they were down in the ground they might not, since there are many non-native plants that can't take having their roots wet all winter. I plan to mulch mine good this year, because last year we had a mild winter, the A. curassavicas made new growth, and then we had a late freeze, mild, but it killed back the new growth, and some of the plants didn't come back at all. Maybe I was too impatient, and they would have come back in time, but I bought some new plants to replace them - there's a local nursery that doesn't charge much for them. Just mulch yours good until spring gets here, then pull the mulch back so the warm spring sun can stimulate them to sprout. If a late freeze is predicted, mulch them thickly with leaves - I sure plan to do that. Sherry...See MoreMilkweed ID
Comments (10)As I understand it (and from a packet I got from the Wings and Wildflowers festival), sage seeds are TINY. I would imagine the means of seed collection is much like coleus. Grab an envelope, open it and shake the dried flowers into it. For myself, I just cleared out a small bed around my sage and I'm letting it self-seed the area, hopefully. Also, as a point of interest, you can usually type these questions into google and you will find an article on eHow or some other site telling you how to do it. So try typing, "how to collect sage seeds" and let 'er go! Though, I admit, sometimes I like to hear it from my fellow Floridian Gardeners. I trust them more....See MoreMilkweed ID
Comments (15)@Regina Philips if you come across any other clasping milkweed seeds I would love to do a trade. I have sandhill milkweed, Indian milkweed, pallid milkweed, hall's milkweed, broadleaf milkweed, heartleaf milkweed, woolly milkweed, purple milkweed, rush milkweed,white-stemmed milkweed,tropical milkweed, common milkweed,ice ballet milkweed, swamp milkweed, green antalope horns, western sand milkweed, prairie milkweed,butterfly weed,poke milkweed whorled milkweed,zizotes milkweed,and showy milkweed, if you want to trade....See More- 6 years ago
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