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Asclepias Collection
Asclepias Collection
Asclepias Collection
Asclepias Collection
Asclepias Collection
Asclepias Collection

Features

  • Hardiness Zone

    3-9

  • Bloom Time

    Summer to early fall

  • Height

    16 - 48 inches

  • Light

    Full Sun

  • Ships As

    Premium Root

  • Plant In

    Spring

  • Deer Resistant
  • Attract Bees

Monarch Oasis Milkweed Collection

12 Roots
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SKU: 83174

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Description

Asclepias Is Vital to the Survival of Monarch Butterflies
The U.S. population of the monarch butterfly has drastically fallen in recent years. Scientists say the iconic orange-and-black insects are particularly scarce in Western states, due largely to the destruction of their asclepias habitat by pesticides and herbicides along their migratory route to California. Milkweeds are crucial to the monarch's survival.
The butterflies lay their eggs on them, and the newly hatched larvae feed on the leaves. Because monarch females usually deposit just one egg per plant, their offspring don't harm milkweeds.
Native to North America, asclepias—more commonly known as milkweed—provides a steady food source for many pollinators, including beautiful monarch butterflies.
Easily attract butterflies, honeybees and hummingbirds to your landscape with free-flowering, colourful and nectarladen asclepias. Also called milkweed, this herbaceous perennial spreads and multiplies year after year to create long-lasting displays. They are an essential source of food for monarch butterflies, which are rapidly disappearing in the U.S.
Deer resistant and drought tolerant, the plant's stout stems yield fragrant clusters of tiny, star-shaped flowers and plenty of thick leaves. Use milkweed to add beauty to butterfly and cottage gardens, prairies and meadows. Flowers and seedpods, which form after the blooms, add colour and substance to dried arrangements.

This collection Includes 3 each of Soulmate, Hello Yellow, Orange Glory Flower and Ice Ballet.
Soulmate: Yields fragrant, 2" clusters of cherrypink blooms with white centres. Ideal for adding vivacious colour to borders, decorative containers and cutting gardens. Asclepias incarnata
Hello Yellow: Its first 2-2½" clusters of golden-yellow flowers for the season arrive in early summer to brighten borders, cutting gardens and containers. Easily grown. Asclepias tuberosa
Orange Glory Flower: Bears masses of wonderfully fragrant, bright orange flower heads rich with nectar. Beautifies any garden, border, naturalized planting or bouquet. Asclepias tuberosa
Ice Ballet: The mildly scented, small, snow-white flowers it produces are set off by the deep green foliage. After the blooms appear, attractive, 4" seedpods form. Asclepias incarnata

Features

  • Hardiness Zone

    3-9

  • Bloom Time

    Summer to early fall

  • Height

    16 - 48 inches

  • Light

    Full Sun

  • Ships As

    Premium Root

  • Plant In

    Spring

  • Deer Resistant
  • Attract Bees
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