Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Growing Milkweed?, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
I tried searing a few years ago but then realized I didn't even have to do that. Just recutting them under water kept them healthy and then they'd root in no time.

Guess what I discovered was eating my milkweed leaves! A cottontail rabbit! My husband told me and I said "they're poisonous! it wouldn't eat that" and he said "look" and sure enough it eating the lower leaves. It would stand up and and pull the plant down a little to get more leaves.

I had so much come up this year, so much rain, and then so many aphids that I thought none of it was going to make it. I didn't thin any out because you KNOW how much we need! lol I did have to cut back some and let it start again tho. Most are big and healthy now. I'll never understand the aphids and how they are so thick and then suddenly gone. ?