Milkweed Garden. See more ideas about milkweed attract butterflies asclepias. Common milkweed plants grow to about 2 to 4 feet in height with a thin vertical growth habit.
Grow milkweed plants in your garden for colorful fragrant and nectar rich flowers that attract pollinators of all sorts. Swamp milkweed as its name implies will do best in a moist environment making it great for wet meadows or rain gardens. Showy milkweed asclepias speciosa an attractive and easy to grow milkweed for the garden with generously thick bluish leaves and light pink fragrant flowers.
Showy milkweed asclepias speciosa an attractive and easy to grow milkweed for the garden with generously thick bluish leaves and light pink fragrant flowers.
Choose plants that have not been treated with pesticides insecticides or neonicotinoids. 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. When where to plant milkweed. If you d like to attract butterflies to your garden growing milkweed is easy to do.