Re: swamp milkweed
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  • Subject: Re: swamp milkweed
  • From: J* B* <j*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:01:00 -0500
I would LOVE some seeds!!!


On 6/10/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
> Of course, some of the people who want me to get rid of my
> beloved milkweed are the same ones who will pay dollars for
> the pods.  If mine make good pods and seed this fall - they
> don't always - I'll be glad to share seeds.  Just remind me in
> the fall - my memory isn't what it once was.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 6/10/2010 10:55:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes:
>
> We don't have it here, I had to go look it up. I love the seed pods.
> I have only seen a monarch butterfly here once, I think it must have
> been lost. We get a couple tiger swallowtails every year, and the
> painted lady butterflies in the spring.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Kitty
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:09 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> 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
>
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