Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Milkweed bulbs growing wild in my yard!!, 1 by thumpergirl

thumpergirl wrote:
Hi Sheila Well they are tropical milkweed so far but some of the newer bulbs have a different flower.I had assumed they would all be the same but they are not.Very strange.It was baby monarch caterpillars on the tropical milkweed plants but they were gone when i got back,as well as all the leaves and blooms of the milkweed. They were very,very tiny.
So it is common to have bulbs of milkweed then??When i found them i didnt know what they were, (I had to keep guard on them so my garden helper didnt rip them out) but left them to do their thing and eventually was able to id them..but..never have I come across any form of milkweed that is in a bulb. im not sure how to replant them.I have been planting them as close to as how i found them but many would have eventually died because they were growing underneath the weed barrier.The bulbs seem to like developing in the dark around mulch,leaves,etc.
Should i bury the entire bulb?Let he top come through?Or set them ontop of the soil and cover with loose mulch,leaves,grass etc?(they seem to like that) i have one in a pot who is making more baby bulbs. For the life of me I have not found bulbs and milkweed in the same sentance.