Re: swamp milkweed
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  • Subject: Re: swamp milkweed
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:09:05 -0500
Get rid of it?  Don't they realize its value?
"Flowers are a nectar source for many butterflies and leaves are a food source for monarch butterfly larvae" I have A incarnata and A. tuberosa. I'd like to have a few A syriaca about too. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] swamp milkweed



Not swamp milkweed, but the common sort - I have growing
beside the large boulder my driveway comes around.  It is just
magnificent right now, and so fragrant.  People tell me to get
rid of that weed, but I think it is so handsome.  I can't imagine
a better border for the drive/boulder.  I put a specimen in the
flower show last weekend, and it got a blue ribbon.  I don't
think the judges realized just what it was, since I only named
it Asclecpias syriaca. Some people viewing the show were
impressed.
APL

In a message dated 6/9/2010 8:35:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:

Last fall I sent a few of you some swamp milkweed seed.  Any results?
I think every one of the seeds that fell from my plants germinated - looks
like a groundcover of seedlings.
I was thinking of potting some up.  Does anyone have experience or
knowledge
of how long they'll take to become a flowering plant? A few seasons maybe? I got my plant as a big field-grown bare-root; I don't know how old it was. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

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