Looking to help the butterflies?
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Milkweed is both a food source AND a host plant on which monarch butterflies lays its eggs. Plus, milkweed’s highly fragrant and nectar-rich flowers are great for other pollinators as well, like native bees, honey bees, many other types of butterflies, and hummingbirds.
Talk about a pollinator party! 🎉🦋🐝🎉
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Zones 3-9
Like most wildflowers, milkweed is easy to grow low maintenance. Most species are not seriously bothered by heat, drought, deer or other pests. And because milkweed is a native plant that tolerates poor soils, fertilization isn’t necessary.
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If you don’t want milkweed to take charge of your garden, remove the seed pods in the fall before they split open and release their contents or tie them closed with string. For plants with rhizomes, thin them out by hand by pulling the entire plant, including the roots, removing as much of the rhizome as possible. This will be easier to do when the plants are young and before the roots are well established. Learn more about plants at gardendesign.com
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Photo by Catherine Avilez
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