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Planting Milkweed Seeds: 4 Easy Methods for Success
12.09.2024 - 18:54 / savvygardening.com / Niki Jabbour
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Planting milkweed seeds is a great way to get a lot of milkweed plants for your garden. Milkweed isn’t difficult to grow from seed and the plants are beautiful, long blooming, and support many species of pollinators, including monarch butterflies. In this article you’ll learn four easy techniques for planting milkweed seeds and get tips on caring for the seedlings.
Why grow milkweed?Gardeners know the value of growing milkweed in their gardens. These are beautiful perennial plants that add bold color to the summer garden, but as the sole larval food source for monarch caterpillars they’re also a host plant. The adult butterflies lay eggs on milkweed plants and when the caterpillars hatch they begin to feed on the leaves.If you wish to create a monarch butterfly habitat, often called a monarch waystation, it’s essential to plant milkweed in your garden.
Types of milkweedThere is a wide variety of milkweed species you can grow in your garden. It’s best to select those that are native to your region or will thrive with the growing conditions of your yard. Here are five types of milkweed popular with gardeners:
- Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) – Native to many parts of North American, common milkweed is a hardy perennial with large rounded pink flowers. It’s an important pollinator and butterfly plant, but be warned, it is aggressive and spreads by rhizomes, underground roots.
- Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) – The bright orange, flat-topped blooms of butterflyweed are beloved by gardeners and pollinators. It forms large clumps in the beds and borders with the plants growing about 2 feet tall and 3 feet
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