Milkweed pods in a habitat area in our backyard.
I should go out today and pick these.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I let them grow wild in one section of the front flower garden.
Surfpirate
Level 9
Oct 18, 2020
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Great!
The Monarchs approve! 
@bigpawbullets That's why I do it. I leave a lot of wild flowers/weeds to grow because the bees need all the help they can get. Several of the farmers on the island have switched to Round Up Ready Soya Beans and the bee population has plummeted in the past few years.
By the time they get to Texas, they prefer Mexican milkweed, I've had it and several other varieties and they seemed to prefer the Mexican variety, I'm guessing that it is an instictual change sine the next generations will have mostly Mexican milkweed on their trip north initially,
@Surfpirate the angry face is for those using roundup.....
I just saw a few monarchs in my habitat, I discovered what has been happening to my frittillaries, the geckos are cleaning the vines nearly every night in the front yard. In the back the frits have taken to laying their eggs on the less desirable species of passion vine.
glennlab
Level 10
Oct 18, 2020
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I planted some common milkweed last spring and it didn't do well , it survived but no flowers . I still have seeds I'll try again next year . I also planted swamp milkweed which did better and spider milkweed never came up . Did you get any monarch butterflies .
Besalbub
Level 8
Oct 18, 2020
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yep we get more each year.
I have a lot of those around my home as well. They also make good medicine. I used to play with them as a kid... I would make the pods float by tossing them in the air.... I didn't know about the Monarch butterflies.. these milkweeds are disappearing fast!
AmmaRE007
Level 7
Oct 18, 2020
3
Considered weeds by most folk. We had to go to an arboretum and collect some pods from their wildlife fields to start them at our place.
Why? What are its uses?
Killtheskyfairy
Level 9
Oct 18, 2020
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The only place Monarch butterflies lay eggs and change into 'pillars-butterflies. We're on the migratory route.
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