Weather_Rock_WxTimeline cleanser …
We are absolutely thrilled that the Monarch butterflies found the narrow leaf milkweed we planted last fall.
Location: North Monterey County
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏@Weather_Rock_Wx We’ve only seen a monarch in our garden a time or two, though what’s growing there appeals to plenty of birds and bees and a few other types of butterflies. Your post prompts us to order milkweed seeds today. I order nearly all seeds from #SowTrueSeed and see their “Butterfly” one is a narrow leaf. Please let me know if you think that’ll do or if you recommend other milkweed seed for our area. https://sowtrueseed.com/search?options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=milkweed And BTW, just put "100 plants to feed the monarch” on hold at MRY library. https://www.montereylibrary.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=462295&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20100%20Plants%20to%20Feed%20the%20Monarch Thanks for the prompt!
Search: 29 results found for "milkweed"
Organic, heirloom and southern seeds at Sow True Seed. Our 500+ varieties of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds are all non-GMO, untreated, and open-pollinated. Order your potatoes starts, sweet potato slips, garlic and asparagus crowns with us throughout the year! Retail store in Asheville, North Carolina.
According to "Monterey County Wildflowers - A Field Guide", the two native milkweed to our area are the bright green Narrow Leaf (Asclepias fasciculris) and the silver green Broad Leaf (Asclepias eriocarpa). We bought two one-gallon Narrow Leaf plants from a nursery out Carmel Valley, but we didn't save the label.
The milkweed at Chews Ridge is the broad leaf variety. We didn't see any plants yet when we were up there last week. It's still early for hill-topping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltopping_(biology)).
I don't know if the particular species matters. We are still learning.
@Weather_Rock_Wx Thank you! Including for teaching us about hilltopping. Until now hill toppers only brought to mind my brothers’ high school basketball teams, the Mt Pulaski Hilltoppers!