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Milkweed Sale: Pre-ordering is Encouraged

Milkweed Sale: Pre-ordering is Encouraged

Jun 11, 2022

Help bring back the Monarchs by buying milkweed at this sale! It’s a great opportunity to buy the only plant...

Milkweed Sale: Pre-ordering is Encouraged

Milkweed Sale: Pre-ordering is Encouraged

Jun 26, 2021

Help bring back the Monarchs by buying milkweed at this sale! It’s a great opportunity to buy the only plant...

Tips for Monarchs and Milkweed

Jul 1, 2016

Vol. 21 Issue 3, Summer 2016 By the Audubon at Home Ambassadors Now, for the first time in its history, gardening...

Milkweed Beetles vs. Bugs

Jul 1, 2015

Vol. 20 Issue 2, Summer 2015 By Emily Bzdyk Milkweed is an important host plant for many insects. Most of...

Common Milkweed: A Plant of Many Virtues

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Vol. 20, Issue 2, Summer 2015 By Donna Quinn Common MilkweedPhoto by Nicole Hamilton Common Milkweed’s story is also a...

An Ode to Milkweed

Jun 30, 2013

I’ve been walking through milkweed patches, flipping over leaves, looking for chew marks, searching for eggs. So far, nada…no Monarch...

Update on Monarchs #Monarchs #Butterflies

May 30, 2013

There have been reports of 3 Monarch butterflies in Loudoun so far – two in Purcellville and one in Round Hill....

Worried About Insects on Your Milkweeds?

Apr 1, 2013

Vol. 18 Issue 1, Spring 2013 by Sally Snidow One of the critical factors in the Monarch Butterfly’s struggle to...

Common Milkweed

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Vol. 18 Issue 1, Spring 2013 by Kerry Bzdyk Common Milkweed Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) – a fascinating plant with an...

Butterfly Weed

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Vol. 10 Issue 2, Summer 2005 By Nicole Hamilton Butterfly weedPhoto by Nicole Hamilton Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberose) is a low-growing...

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