What Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) Looks Like in Each Season
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Learn what Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) looks like in every season of the year. See foliage, blooming growth, flowers, seed pods, and browned stalks. Also, you will get to learn a few interesting things about Butterfly Weed and their pollinators.
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What you've done with these "looks like in each season" videos are incredibly useful and require a great deal of intentionality. Thank you. Roy Diblik from North Wind Perennial Farms in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin keeps stressing the importance of knowing plants growth rates and habits in planning mixed native plantings ... like the matrix plantings of native grasses with interplanted with wild flowers that are being promoted these days. This is what makes an experienced gardeners/horticulturalist and it is absolutely foundational. For me the problem is that it takes years (literally ... plants may take 2-3-5 years to mature. It's helpful to see mature plant behavior in the garden or meadow/prairie. What one individual can grow themselves to learn about growth habits is limited. What you've done is to provide that information for a mature plant visually.
I'm wondering if 1) you're aware of any group that might be doing this in a systematic way, or 2) whether it might not be valuable to try to organize such a group. It seems to me like something that Extension horticultural programs or some of our Native Plant societies might have done or be interested in doing. Would you (and others) be interested in discussing how to find larger efforts like what you've done or how to try to organize an effort like this?
It would be incredibly valuable to have a compendium of similar videos on many plants. Even though all of this also varies with location and growing conditions (as you mention re local micro-climates in your Rudbeckia hirta video) it is still informative to see how the plant grows through the year in any place.
This is not a great platform for having this kind of conversation. But I wanted to try because what you've done is clearly a lot of work and is very, very valuable.
Thank you!
Thank you! I appreciate you saying so!
I am a master gardener in Prince William County and our unit is 200 plus strong. I like your idea. I have over the years photographed my native plants in all the seasons but never with a voice over.
Thank you for this video! It's easy to find pictures of plants in full bloom, but it's really helpful to see what the normal progression through the year looks like. Thanks!
I'm so glad this was helpful to you!
GIRL.....I am SO excited to find you. Fifteen years ago I dug up a milk weed that a neighbor didn't want . It was good size and I'd heard it would be hard to dig and probably would die. Well, it WAS hard to dig up but it didn't die and I've had it all
this time but have seen very little butterfly activity over the years. Then I got sick and didn't tend the yard for about 4 yrs
and the weeds in the area took over. 3 weeks ago I had an area cleared out so I could create a proper Butterfly garden and now I find
that I've actually got little asclepias tuberosa popping up everywhere! Problem was, I wasn't sure it was AT as I've got
some extraordinary looking weeds. I've been looking on youtube for several days for info on new plants coming up in the
garden (nothing) THEN today....I found your wonderful
video of the tiny budding plants. YES, they are AT milkweed! I am just thrilled. This is the first time I've been able to
get in the yard and although I'd bought some milkweed seeds , I never have much luck with seeds and my find really
is a tremendous blessing. I even found some little "bushes" on the mount of dirt next to the burn pit where we burn
limbs, cardboard boxes, etc. They had these funny stalks which made me think they may be another kind of weed but....found out from you that
they are the stalks from previous year. Wow, I didn't keep them....just tossed into the burn pile but if I find more I will be
bundling them for the bees. Really, your vid has been of inculcuable help. Don't know what else you've got to teach but
I subscribed. We are in N. Central Arkansas Ozarks. I haven't looked at your channel yet but if you've not stated your
location I would really like to know. April and May are my favorite months as the flowers are popping and weeds haven't taken hold yet. If I do get butterflies, I hope the birds don't get them all. Also I've heard that the AT are deer resistant
but you mentioned that a deer got yours. Perhaps just a taste? We do have rabbits in the woods but they come infrequently
because of the dog. Also my cats are bad to get the butterflies but I do mostly keep them inside. Well, as soon as I
shower and feed the fur babies I'll check out your channel. Thanks again and many blessings, pb
Well I am so so so glad that my video could help you!
You absolutely hit on the reason I started this channel! When I started getting into native plants, I could find a million pictures/videos of plants in bloom, but nothing of what they looked like coming up in the spring (or post-bloom in the fall/winter). It's frustrating because it can be hard to tell what's what when things are coming up in springtime!
It's so amazing that you now have so many A. tuberosa plants! What a show it must be! I do think that that deer got a taste and then regretted that decision, and so didn't and hasn't had any more bites. Every once in awhile, I'll see deer, rabbits, and/or groundhogs nibbling at something that they aren't supposed to like. I figure that perhaps in some cases, they must learn what they don't like first (like, it's not inborn) and then they won't eat it again. But I'm not sure on that, just a guess.
Anyways, I'm so glad this video was a help for you, and I'm so glad to hear that your A. tuberosa did make it afterall, and are back in full force!
@@nativeflowerpower9942 I do think they have grown since yesterday! I worked in the yard a bit today
too and it was so wonderful. I can't get after it like I used to do but I do love to be out there digging,
clipping, etc. The spirit is willing bu the flesh is weak. One of the great pleasures of life. I still haven't
gotten to look at your channel but I will soon - I think we're going to have a couple days of rain so
that will be a good time. Thanks so much! Blessings, p
Thank you for listing the background flower! That was very nice of you.
This entire video was delightful. I subscribed.
Great video! Love the grow timeline. This is my second year for my butterfly weed so this timeline helps me understand this plant! Thank you!
Oh I'm so glad it's helpful! And glad you're in your second year, you should get blooms!
So far, 2nd and probably last flower flush of the growing season on mine! Never thought I’d see flowers in August and I saw a neighbour’s orange milkweed blooming same as mine too! 🎊
Well now that's interesting. Two of my A. tuberosa plants have done a second bloom this year. That's not happened before and it's interesting to hear that it's happened to someone else too!
Really enjoyed your suggestion of the hollow stems being used for nesting.
Excellent! Glad you found it helpful.
Very useful video, thank you!
I'm glad to hear that!
This video was so cool! I love looking at the different stages! I just started these last year, and they came back and I can't wait to see them bloom. They didn't bloom the first year!
They came back, yessss! I''m excited for you to have them bloom this year!
Awesome video. I am sharing this with my master gardener buddies in Prince William County, Virginia. I immediately checked on mine and one of the stalks in my little patch is now coming up as well. 😃❤️
Thank you! Also, it's such a wonderful feeling when you see your plants coming back up in the spring -- I'm glad yours are back! ❤
Such a helpful video concept and yet so hard to pull off since it would take such disciplined effort. So impressed 👍
Well I appreciate that. Thank you :-)
👍🏼…Great Direction of this video!
Thank you very much! :)
Love love seeing all the stages and appreciate learning! Thk u
Oh good! It was the one thing missing when I started getting into native plants, so I thought, "Well heck, why not make seasonal videos of my own?!" :-)
Great video! Thanks for showing us! : )
You're welcome! I'm glad it was useful!
Thank you very much for showing time laps of Batterfly weed flower. I love orange flowers in general, that's how I found these online. Never seen them before. Got excited looking at beautiful flowers and very sturdy leaves. Ordered online. First order came as bare roots. Long way to see them blooming. Now ordered few live plants. So beautiful flowers!
Does accidental frost in April -May can affect them or not? I live in 5b zone
Love mine !! Blended in with day Lilies
Love your videos
Please keep teaching us. Thank you
Thank you, I'm glad to hear it!
Nice video. I saw once monarch caterpillar chewed off a flower and I was like - what the hell are you doing, silly? But the new flower appeared some time later. I also think those are milkweed bugs and not aphids.
You're right! Those are milkweed bugs! Thanks for the heads up -- I'll have to fix that in the video.
Yes, aphids are a clear transparent insect
Thank you for this video. I have been trying to grow butterfly weed for 3 years and I plant it and it withers away and nothing. I keep trying different areas in m6 yard to find dry location they would like, have mostly wet locations. The other day I was weeding an area and saw these things popping up but weren’t weeds, used app and it said butterfly weed. I was confused as that area was first place I tried to plant it 3 years ago so I thought it was mistake. Thanks to your video it’s confirmed butterfly weed 😊. Subscribed as love the info and looking forward to more plant profiles 😊
Oh I love that! You're trying to get these guys going somewhere, trying all these different spots, and then they threw you a surprise and popped up in the original spot you tried! Sneaky little darlings. :-)
If you have wet locations why not also grow swamp milkweed? Asclepias incarnata.
@@koblerville923 yes swamp milkweed loves my wet locations, I have a very poor draining site and it loves it there. Thanks for the suggestion I really should incorporate it more into my gardens, especially since my deer and groundhogs leave it alone. The groundhog loves common milked though.
Spectacular! THANKS! Subscribed!
I'm so glad to hear a spectacular! These are my favorite types of videos to make!
Very helpful and informative ❤❤❤❤ Thanks for sharing❤❤❤
I'm so so so glad to hear that! 🙂
Fantastic video, very helpful for me as I have some seeds planted and will emerge any day now, great to see all the different stages of growth of the Butterfly weed, can’t wait to end up with plants like in this video
Yes! You'll be there soon! Gardening makes us all practice patience, right? 🙂 Good luck to you!
Such a great and informative video! I’ll be starting some native milkweed from seed later this year, and this helps me understand their growing cycle. What region / zone are you in?
This is so helpful. Thank you
I'm glad to hear that -- you're welcome!
My butterfly weed started coming up circa a week ago. Full sun. The others, in part sun aren't out yet. It's been a fairly warm spring this year. This is zone 6a.
I watched some of your other vids re the full life cycles of some your plants. Very good stuff, and I enjoyed them.
Watching the differences between full and partial sun Asclepias is always interesting -- you get to watch a varying show in your own yard! 🙂It has indeed been a warm spring this year, I've noticed mostly everything coming up a bit early. Have you been noticing other things coming up early too? Which I suppose is another thing to watch and observe, how that plays out over the Summer and Fall.
Thank you!!
Yes! You're welcome!
Com up June in northern Maine
Excellent, thank you .
You're welcome ☺
Lovely video thanks
You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful for you!
Very informative and entertaining. Appreciate all your efforts putting this together. The audio was only on the left channel for whatever reason 🤷🏻♂️
I'm glad it was entertaining too -- I'm aiming for informative more than anything, but if it's not dreadfully boring, then that's a real win too! ☺
Thanks so much for all of this info!
This was fantastic!
Purple milkweed seems to have different leaves. The butterflies love it also, and the deer.
Oh purple milkweed, yes! So lovely. :-) I'll agree with you that there's some variation in the milkweed leaves. And ugh. Deer. I mean, it's fine that deer are around, but in mere seconds, they sure can decimate all our plant-growing efforts!
I love your milkweed. I planted 2 swamp milkweed from seed here in U.K. and I love them. I will try the orange one like yours but might be isn’t hardy.
No eggs yet? I had one egg on my 5” tall tuberosa on 5/15/23 in Bellevue NE
awesome
I have one of these plants, and I want more. I heard you need at least three if your wanting Monarch Butterflies to find your plants and lay eggs. I live in North Central Arizona. A warm Winter this year. Only a few light snows. But we can get heavy snow in March. Sometimes, 20-30 inches in one night. And it can get to 80 degrees in April, then snow the day before Mothers Day in May. We call it, Bipolar weather here. Cause we never know from day to day what may happen. We have Anna's Hummingbirds all year round. Odd to see hummers flying back n forth to the feeders with a foot of snow or more on the ground. They'll like the Milkweed once it blooms also.
Well, I can say that I found Monarch caterpillars on our Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) at a time when we only had one plant. So I'd say that 3 plants isn't essential to get Monarch activity. However, I can also say that I hadn't heard this 3 plant idea, and I'm wondering if 3 plants is the number of plants where Monarch activity REALLY takes off. Know what I mean? They'll come to fewer plants, but when you get to 3 or more, that's like a cutoff of some kind, and things really get hoppin' then. ??
I do also know that Monarchs will visit and lay eggs on any milkweed; however they're 2 favorite milkweeds are Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) and Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed). Do you think you could get either of those growing too, given your bipolar weather?
@@nativeflowerpower9942 Well I think in an area where there are few milkweed plants grown to begin with. 3 may be best if not more, for them to smell or seek them out. Not sure if they sell them though.
@@seamus6994I see, I see... well this is interesting -- stop by when you get 3+ going and let me know if you've seen any Monarch caterpillar or butterfly activity!
Were the butterflies at any point?
What an apt question. :-) I actually don't see many butterflies on my 'butterfly weed'. Some people say that they see many (hence the common name, of course), but I don't yet. I get butterflies on many other native plants (like Agastache foeniculum [Anise Hyssop] and Liatris ligulistylis [Meadow Blazing Star]), but not the butterfly weed.
I’m lucky to have common, orange and red milkweed! 🎉So far, no monarch caterpillar…
Also the common one is potted (spreads too much) and unlike the red and orange mw, has not flowered yet! 🤔 Just leaves.
All the wild ones I see are blooming or even finished. I suspect that it doesn’t like much to be in its (self-watering) bucket and kinda crowded, probably 6-7 plants sharing the space.
Oh that's really quite interesting. Growing common milkweed in a pot makes sense because it's so aggressive, but also yeah, it can be inhibitory. That probably does explain the lack of flowers. But as you and I both know, those Monarch butterflies will come and lay eggs on milkweed leaves, regardless of whether there's ever any flowers or not. So that's good.
when you say red milkweed, do you mean Asclepias incarnata or Asclepias rubra?
@@nativeflowerpower9942 Incarnata. 😁
Similarly, no seed pod on the incarnata in this late August… 🤔
Those orange bugs are nymphs of the milkweed bugs. They suck juice from the plant. They resemble oleander aphids but are different
Thank you very much for the heads up!
I purchased two established plants but also ordered seeds.. they don’t spread right 2 pants will stay two until I add on right?
I did the same thing. But I'm thinking, maybe I ordered to soon. I can get snow right up till the day before Mothers Day.
From my experience, I think you're right and wrong both (how helpful!). 😋 A. tuberosa does spread but not very quickly. So one I have is planted in a sub-optimal spot and it hasn't spread at all. The other has actually spread a little bit. I haven't found it difficult at all to control, but it has spread a little. I do think A. tuberosa is mostly a stay-in-place Milkweed, but again, I did have 2 sprouts come up about 1 foot from the original plant. I was happy with this development because I dug them up and put them somewhere else that I wanted them. So, they can spread a bit, but it's not quick.
In what zone are you located? This from 6B Michigan.
Hi, Does it grow in a tropical climate???
Hi! Well, I know that it grows all the way down through Florida and the southern United States, and it can grow down into Mexico. Get too south in Mexico and then it no longer can survive. Does that help?
Native to where?
North America
@@nativeflowerpower9942 Thank you
'Aslepias'. So is it a medicinal weed?
Is butterfly weed toxic to dogs?
Indeed. All the milkweeds (including butterfly weed) make a sap (the white stuff that comes out of the stalks/leaves) that contains cardiac glycosides. These are toxic. I have no idea how much must be consumed before there's a problem though. It's not just us and dogs, most organisms have trouble handling cardiac glycosides.
This year, my plants are awesome! They have been blooming forever!!! I have pods right now on some and some blooms!!!! Never happened before like this! I love them!!!
Fyi the “greenish-whitish balls where the flowers come out” are called buds.
Quite right!
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I never saw a single butterfly.
Don't be a fat grouch, Franz.
It takes a while for the monarchs to find the milkweed.
Agree! On this particular milkweed, I rarely get butterflies. Nearly all bees. For a few years now. The bees are enough of a show that I'm not particularly cranky about it; however, I haven't been able to explain yet why this butterfly weed doesn't seem to yet attract butterflies.
On other milkweeds (especially Swamp Milkweed [Asclepias incarnata]), I get Monarch butterflies and a preponderance of butterflies and bees.
It's not the butterfly weed - she doesn't have enough.
You won't get any if you use chemical fertilizers on your lawn either.
In a nearby park I watched an AT milkweed come into bloom in a mostly-grass field. At its peak 5 sulfur butterflies were taking nectar. Lovely. Then someone picked all but one flower and dropped it by the trail I guess when they didn’t care to carry it home. Just to say butterflies are attracted to this flower. It is also a host plant for the monarch butterfly. Eggs are laid on it and when they hatch they eat the leaves and when they are full-grown they crawl away to another plant or place to attach and go into a chrysalis. This is probably the main reason it’s call butterfly weed.