Butterfly Milkweed Seed. September 21 at 8 12 pm. If you mail a self addressed stamped envelope to live monarch 2020 seed campaign po box 1339 blairsville ga 30514 the foundation will send back 15 butterfly garden seeds including milkweed for free.
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Asclepias tuberosa the butterfly weed is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern north america. Common milkweed plants grow to about 2 to 4 feet in height with a thin vertical growth habit. Folowed instructions on the seed packets and after a while i actually had about 50 milkweed plants in addition to a failry large buddleja davidii a butterfly bush.
It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar it is also a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies as well as the dogbane tiger moth milkweed tussock moth and.
If you include a donation for the foundation along with your envelope they ll provide you with 50 seeds for every dollar you donate. Folowed instructions on the seed packets and after a while i actually had about 50 milkweed plants in addition to a failry large buddleja davidii a butterfly bush. This gives you a nice head start the following spring. If you include a donation for the foundation along with your envelope they ll provide you with 50 seeds for every dollar you donate.
