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Nov 30, 2013 10:23 AM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
Let's see. I have Giant Milkweed (Calotropis gigantea), Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica), Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), and some kind of milkweed that only came with the tag "Native milkweed". I'm not even sure it's still in the butterfly garden. It was looking pretty ragged and taken over by weeds last time I looked. The tropical milkweed gets the most usage although I see caterpillars on the others, as well. All of them grow in full sun, surprising for Florida. Once they get established, I really don't do anything to them. And most of the tropical milkweed coming up is from seeds that spread from earlier plants I had in the same general space.

Thanks for the thumbs up (and the acorn, too) everyone!

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