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Asclepious Tuberosa (butterfly milkweed)


Asclepious Tuberosa (butterfly milkweed)

I don't understand how this can be classified as a weed. I don't agree with it.



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Definition of a weed...a plant in the wrong place.

28 Jun, 2016

 

I do agree with you. thanks

28 Jun, 2016

 

I am promising myself to grow one, one day. :-)

29 Jun, 2016

 

LOL I think everybody should - we can save the monarchs from extinction.

29 Jun, 2016

 

We have seen absolutely NO monarchs this year. I'm so worried. I have several patches of Asclepias syriacus (the other milkweed) that I've saved from the mowers just for the monarchs...and no luck. Actually we have very few butterflies!... even the little yellow cabbage moths are uncommon. I remember reading, this past spring, about a freak heavy freeze in the mountains where they over-winter... the climate bites!

12 Jul, 2016

 

I've heard that bit of news myself and 80% of them perished. I may have seen only two this year, but I remember seeing them everyday. I hope they can recover. I would love to get a few seeds of Asclepious Syriacus

12 Jul, 2016

 

Amen to that!

12 Jul, 2016



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