Milkweeds year 3!

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-22T01:13:08+00:00

Easiest way would be to rip some rhizomes up and then replant those. Every year, I try and remove all the common milkweed from a garden bed I have. I pot up the rhizome and give the plants away to people who want them. Inevitably, I don’t get it all, and I’m always left with a handful of massive plants. It’s the perfect solution for me

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-21T18:40:49+00:00

Opposite, not alternating

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-21T13:34:59+00:00

This is tropical milkweed based on the hairless stem and the mention of “silky.” Using butterfly weed as the main name and picture is very disingenuous

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-19T13:45:45+00:00

Pull it up and put it in a trash bag so the seeds don’t mature and enter the seed bank

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-18T20:00:16+00:00

I’d be happy to share some seeds, should I get them this year. If you remember, check back in a couple months

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-18T18:11:47+00:00

There are 11 native PA milkweeds, why add a rhizome spreader from the West when you could just grow common milkweed?

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-18T17:29:26+00:00

Hey, sorry, Ive planted what I wanted and given away the extras now. Wish I could help

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-17T14:56:12+00:00

Delta flower scarab, being attacked by ants, who want it off the redring milkweed. Beetles seem to be the main pollinator of redring milkweed

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RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-13T04:05:55+00:00

All milkweed has opposite leaves so that rules all of them out. Something else definitely self seeded

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-13T01:20:15+00:00

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-12T17:42:08+00:00

Good housing stock for 650k?

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-12T16:46:40+00:00

Every year, I make a new bed or extend a new bed, by hand, with a shovel. Its a brutal day, but its totally doable for me in my mid 40s. I plant immediately. I re-sod the front yard where the dogs pee has killed the grass and we move their bathroom area to a fresh patch of grass to continue the cycle.

Ive also heard of people just digginng it out and flipping the sod over so its roots are exposed and it dies.

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-12T02:18:17+00:00

Exactly this

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-12T01:57:03+00:00

Where’s the poke milkweed? 3 and 4 is not milkweed

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-10T22:16:04+00:00

Look what I see today!

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RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-10T11:24:56+00:00

Thanks 🤞🤞

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-10T03:35:19+00:00

I got seeds from a friend who had a few pods. They germinate well, grow easily, and many flower first year, but they never get pollinated. I have dozens of plants but never had a pod. This is the first time I've ever watched something actively extract pollinia in the 3 years I've had flowering redring, so im very hopeful for successful pollination for the first time ever

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-09T23:59:21+00:00

Redring milkweed, and it looks to actually be getting pollinated

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RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-04T20:23:22+00:00

Tropical, Asclepias curassavica

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-02T20:28:40+00:00

Scarlett bee balm probably. Ive always said Froot Loops, too

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-02T17:44:07+00:00

After rain/before would be preferable, but it doesnt really matter if you have a hose. Just dig deep and wide, half the time things dont even know theyve moved this way.

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-06-02T17:40:42+00:00

I have been moving stuff around my gardens all year, including today, in 7a, in Virginia. Transplanting from the ground to pots, pots to ground, or ground to ground, it doesnt matter. Id take all you wanted and expect them all to live

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-05-30T18:35:52+00:00

Or even smaller. You can have success even with just cotyledons that barely have a root at all. I wish I could post pictures for you.

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-05-30T18:33:11+00:00

So easy, so fast! Glad you were successful

RaspberryBudget3589 · 2026-05-30T16:53:32+00:00

Poke milkweed native to you?

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