Asclepias - Milkweed (Butterflyweed)

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butterflygal Grady, AL(Zone 8a) Jun 05, 2003

Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have to replant my Asclepias every spring. According to the nursery I buy them from they should come back every year. I lightly covered them with pinestraw the first year, and this past winter I put hay on them. I have lots of seedlings that come up, but at the end of May. Since it takes awhile for them to mature and bloom. Most of the seedlings get eaten by the larva, before they can bloom. I do want the catapillars to get fat, but I also want some nectar plants.

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poppysue Westbrook, ME(Zone 5a) Jun 05, 2003

Which type are they? Some species come up very late here. I usually think they've died but then they finally pop up.

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butterflygal Grady, AL(Zone 8a) Jun 05, 2003

I checked the root right after the seedlings came up and it was sorta hollow. The nursery calls this "Orange Glory"

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poppysue Westbrook, ME(Zone 5a) Jun 05, 2003

It looks like Ascepias curassavica - which is tender here. http://plantsdatabase.com/go/604/ If you had a bad winter it might not have made it through. I have to grow that one as an annual.

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butterflygal Grady, AL(Zone 8a) Jun 06, 2003

Thanks Poppysue you are quite right, that is the one I have :) I'll just have to start more seeds each fall.

I ordered almost every color of this beauty weed from that wonderful site you sent me to.

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