Asclepias seed pods.
By Lori
5 Sep, 2017
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I can't tell you how many times I ran around these plants with my camera trying to get a decent shot of a monarch butterfly. This is their favourite food plant for larva and for butterfly. the milky sap does not poison them but the birds won't eat them. The blossom is so sweet scented and it drips nectar.
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Im fascinated! How does such a tiny flower make such a big seed pod?! I tried to buy some asclepias this year but it never arrived. Maybe next year....we do have some butterflies at last. They are loving the buddleias this year! Its so great to see them.
5 Sep, 2017
this seed pod will ripen and dry out...then split to allow lovely teardrop shaped seed attached to a downy white sail...which fly when the winds of autumn blow. they are amazing plants. The scent of the flower is deliciously sweet and they are full of nectar. Perfect to feed butterflies! will post a photo of the flowers for you Karen.
7 Sep, 2017
I've seen them Lori! But thanks anyway, they are really lovely and so orange!
7 Sep, 2017
apparently there are 76 var. of "milkweed" and they vary a lot in size and colour. The orange flower is A. tuberosa which I tried to grow three years ago and it died out on me. This is A. syriaca... the best of them all in my humble opinion.
7 Sep, 2017
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Thats a big seed pod Lori how big is the flower. Best sit in one position and enlarge your photo so your at a distance as not to disturb the butterfly.
5 Sep, 2017