Butterfly Milkweed Plants Near Me. This in turn helps you attract and support more monarchs in your garden. Milkweed is the monarch s host plant and thus it is a must for a monarch garden.
Milkweed contains a mild toxin to which the young caterpillar is immune. Use it in butterfly gardens as well as the middle or back of the border. Dancing wings butterfly garden.
Milkweed contains a mild toxin to which the young caterpillar is immune.
We work with a large variety of butterfly host plants. Common milkweed asclepias syriaca is a native herbaceous perennial whose main virtue is its appeal to butterflies especially the monarch which deposits its eggs on the milkweed when the caterpillars hatch they feed on the leaves of milkweed. Common milkweed plants grow to about 2 to 4 feet in height with a thin vertical growth habit. With almost 30 years of experience weston gardens is dedicated to texas native and acclimate plants.