Re: swamp milkweed
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  • Subject: Re: swamp milkweed
  • From: &* S* <z*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:45:33 -0500
Some people are soooo snooty! I let larkspur grow anywhere it wants to in my yard, and wild carrot always grows with it. You'd be surprised at the number of people who think the combination is just beautiful because they don't realize what it is. Of course, I have to carefully remove all traces of the carrot or I'll be covered with it next year. 
zem
zone 7
West TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] swamp milkweed



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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