Mark the location of any butterfly milkweed in the garden or plant some spring flowering bulbs ... spreading by deep rhizomes and seeds. The purple-pink flowers are fragrant at night, and you ...

Growing milkweed from seed is one of the easiest ways to help declining monarch butterflies. In December 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed monarch butterflies, whose numbers in the ...

You can help make a difference by providing the species with its food plant: milkweed. A monarch butterfly gliding over a field on outstretched wings is one of the most beautiful images of summer.

And common milkweed may be prolific once ... Aggressive ones crowd out other plants and spread far — sometimes with rhizomes underground, sometimes in difficult to track patterns — and their ...

With so many to choose from, select the milkweed that is best suited to the growing conditions, your landscape design, and garden maintenance. Some milkweeds are very aggressive and can quickly ...

With so many to choose from, select the milkweed that is best suited to the growing conditions, your landscape design, and garden maintenance. Some milkweeds are very aggressive and can quickly take ...