Each seed is meticulously cleaned, tested, and packaged to guarantee maximum freshness and viability.Īttracts Beneficial Wildlife: Planting Showy Milkweed in your garden helps create a vibrant ecosystem by attracting various pollinators, including bees, hummingbirds, and the endangered Monarch butterfly. High-Quality Seeds: Our Showy Milkweed seeds are sourced from the best growers, ensuring optimum germination rates and healthy plants. Experience the joy of cultivating these stunning plants and creating a thriving habitat for countless beneficial insects and pollinators. Asclepias speciosa, commonly known as Showy Milkweed, is a beautiful native plant that not only adds a touch of elegance to your garden but also plays a crucial role in supporting local wildlife, particularly the iconic Monarch butterfly. Introducing our premium Showy Milkweed Seeds for Planting - the perfect addition to your garden for a sustainable, eco-friendly, and flourishing outdoor space. Make it part of your permanent landscape this season.Grow a Wildlife Haven with Showy Milkweed Seeds for Planting - A Must-Have for a Thriving, Eco-Friendly Garden Hardy from one end of the country to another, easy to grow, and ready to self-sow if you want more plants, Showy Milkweed is a treasure.
Either way, once the seeds have gone through their chill time, you can sow and grow them indoors until they have at least 2 sets of true leaves. Put the bag in the fridge where it won't be disturbed for a month. But that takes up space, so another method is to place the seeds onto a moistened paper towel, fold the towel over them, and place it in a plastic bag. If you have room in your fridge, pop the seeds into the Bio Dome and put the whole Dome (or just the bottom tray, covered with plastic) into the fridge. When your seeds arrive, they need about a month of chill time. Here are just a few of the butterflies you can look for on your Showy Milkweed: It's an amazing sight, and one that every gardener should experience. And if you look very closely under the stems, you may see semi-transparent chrysalises containing beautiful folded-up butterflies, just waiting to break open and fly. That means that the caterpillars have fed and are ready for the chrysalis stage.
Or let the handsome seedpods form, cut them off, and share the rewards with friends who lack Showy Milkweed in their gardens.īecause milkweed is a food source for monarch caterpillars, you may find some nibbled foliage. It will self-sow, so if you don't want volunteers, simply remove the last blooms before they set seed. Some asclepias species (not the cultivated varieties, but the wild species) can be invasive, but Showy Milkweed is far more restrained. This is not a container plant it grows a long taproot, so try to plant it where you know you want it to grow, because transplanting is very difficult. Be sure to site Showy Milkweed in a fully sunny spot, in well-drained soil. Honeybees and bumblebees find the nectar irresistible too.
And the blooms have that distinctive licorice aroma so beloved of hummingbird mint.īutterflies aren't the only pollinators to visit these blooms. You will seldom find it out of bloom for 4 to 5 months at a stretch. The blue-green leaves are thick and slightly hairy, topped by glorious rosy-pink starbursts fully 4 to 5 inches wide from late spring into early fall. Showy Milkweed is a stout, well-branched plant, airy and beautifully textured. A pollinator magnet you simply must grow in your sunny garden, it is a Native American perennial with so many merits, you will wonder how you ever got by without it. We are honored to make Showy Milkwood seeds available this season.
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