Butterfly weed pods
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Comments (9)flowergirl_VA: Thanks! My passion wobbles back and forth between gardening and photography. This way I get to combine them! cheleinri: I have never seen a white one like this before. The regular milkweed doesn't have a lot of color, but it's not white by any means. Joan: Thanks you! See me reply to flowergirl! *grin*...See MoreButterfly weed to trade
Comments (1)Would love to have some of the Butterfly weed pod. See my trade list I also have lots of Yvonne's salvia. LMK...See MoreFreeze question
Comments (5)Molanic, I was thinking just the opposite about the Asclepias! Mine had seed pods on them for at least 8 weeks or more, and even though most had turned yellow or brown, none were opening, and I was beginning to think they never would. Within a day or two of our first hard freeze, all of the pods began to open. It seemed like the frost caused the pods to open, but I could be wrong about that. I'm just glad they are all planted within sight of my kitchen window, or all of the seeds would have blown away before I noticed! Bonnie...See MoreSave Seeds and Adopt NewButterfliers!!!
Comments (32)Bernergrrl, To the contrary, I don't think you were sounding critical and I agree with your idea 100%. In fact, I was just going to say the same thing. I think it would be much better to share locally if possible. I was hoping to share seedlings with my neighbors, two of whom were quite smitten with my butterfly raising last year, but I didn't have enough to share. I don't expect other people to raise butterflies, but simply planting some flowers for them and some host plants would be a big help. If we collect wild seeds, the plants will be truly native and well adapted here, and if we share them locally it will help the neighbors, the butterflies, and ourselves. A win-win all around. Around here things are so built up it is not that easy to find native flowering plants. We do have milkweed of various types, though. Last summer I also found some mountain mint which was swarming with bees and butterflies when it flowered. I gathered some seed and planted it and it is doing beautifully. I love that minty smell! Also some wild chelone, but I understand that is difficult to grow from seed. My local park planted a little wild patch for the butterflies with ironweed, milkweed, black-eyed Susan, thistle, and helenium. I saw a pretty good variety of butterflies there last summer, including monarchs, black and tiger swallowtails, lots and lots of clouded and orange sulfurs, and the occasional viceroy or buckeye. There were also lots of pearl crescents in that park in various places throughout the summer. However, I doubt that these plants are truly wild. I think the parks department probably bought seed to plant this area. However, you can say that the plants were well adapted here since they were thriving....See Moretomatoz1
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