milk weed

spookybird

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Anyone here have seeds to share?
I've got tropical and common looking for something different
that would be native to Ok. zone 6b.

I winter sowed them 2 yr. ago with great success. Had lots of Monarch cats.
Such a great experience I'd never seen Monarch or any butterfly from egg to butterfly and
this yr. I got to see the Monarch and Black Swallow tail. Really made my year!!!!
Thanks!!
 

journey11

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My grandma converted all of her beds to easy to care for native plants. My uncle went out in the fields and dug up lots of milk weed for her. She gets tons of monarchs most years and they attach their chrysalises up the side of her brick home. I am going to have to get some started too. The kids would love to see that. :)
 

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I only have some common milkweed here. So happy you are having success with the butterflies.
 

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@spookybird, I have an orange milk weed family plant called butterfly weed in the catalogs. I used to have another butterfly weed that was white, but it didn't return two years ago. I have seed if you would be interested.
 
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