Backyard Milkweed Garden. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca has a wide native range and is easy to find but it also has some aggressive properties that may not make it right for your butterfly garden. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is the best choice for new england s long winters and rocky fields swamp milkweed asclepias incarnata is perfect in wetlands or bright garden pots it can tolerate both very wet and very dry soil conditions.
So don t go digging up these wild flowers from the side of the road unless you want your whole backyard and your neighbors one big field of this stuff. Native milkweed plants pollinator host and nectar plants for the butterflies bees hummingbirds. Some gardeners allow common milkweed in their gardens because of its showy fragrant flowers.
Milkweed in the garden like most people for years i thought of milkweed as just that a weed.
Native milkweed plants pollinator host and nectar plants for the butterflies bees hummingbirds. Saturday august 2 2008. So don t go digging up these wild flowers from the side of the road unless you want your whole backyard and your neighbors one big field of this stuff. Make way for milkweed.