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The listing, SCARLET MILKWEED seeds Attracts Butterflies has ended.

Plant these and enjoy the Beautiful outcome!!
This article appeared in the Lima News Sunday..

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/04/28/v-print/3585539/on-gardening-scarlet-milkweed.html

Butterfly Magnet

Scarlet milkweed is an erect, evergreen perennial subshrub, often grown as an annual. Like most milkweeds, it has opposite leaves and milky sap.

It gets 3-4 ft. tall ,the flowers are clusters of orange and red.

It blooms continuously until fall, it has spindle shaped seed pods, 3-4 in long, that eventually split open to release little flat seeds that drift away on silky parachutes.

Hardy in zones 8-11

Grown as annual in all other zones.

Blooms first year from seed.

allowed to reseed they will come back..I had some volunteers this year. YAY!!

All milkweeds are poisonous if ingested, and the milky sap is a skin irritant.

Questions & Comments

I live in S.Fla and grow a ton of this each year. I get so many Monarch butterflies it isnt even funny. I also get a ton of Monarch Caterpillars that totally eat all the milkweed, which is fine as it so fun to watch the pillars get big and then form their Chrysalis and in about 10 days the gorgeous Monarch emerges. Easy to grow and the plant will regenerate over and over and over.

Jul 10th, 2011 at 5:10:31 PM PDT by

I haven't seen that yet but really hope this year..

Jul 11th, 2011 at 7:34:33 AM PDT by

I have never seen these fanning you and watching

Jul 11th, 2011 at 9:12:52 AM PDT by

They are gorgeous!!

Jul 11th, 2011 at 2:27:50 PM PDT by

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