Northeast Gardening: It's Butterfly time at my house, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Hi, Seandor--This is a pic of Asclepias curassavica, also known as 'tropical milkweed'.

This particular one is treated as an annual in the north, so it's probably not the kind in Candyce's field--- but still a very pretty one. This one has cats on it from last year.

I have this Asclepias planted with my orange and yellow daylilies and some vaiegated liriope (in the pic).

Here's a google image search page showing a few different milkweeds, too. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=asclepias&btnG=Searc...

Some are very pretty for the garden. I grow A. incarnata 'cinderella' and A. tuberosa also.

This message was edited Jul 23, 2007 3:22 PM