Common Milkweed Abloom, Here, There, and Everywhere!

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Common Milkweed and Bee Asclepias syriaca ©Kim Smith 2015A patch of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in bloom has a wonderfully sweet honey-hay scent. Look for it growing along the sand dunes, roadside edges, fields, meadows, and where ever there is a neglected patch. And keep your eyes peeled for Monarchs; the earliest arrivals (for the most part) are synchronized to the flowering of Common Milkweed.

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

4 thoughts on “Common Milkweed Abloom, Here, There, and Everywhere!”

  2. Kim, I would like to order 1 packet common milkweed and 2 packets of marsh milkweed. My total order is $10.50. My email address is mlkenney2@verizon.net. I look forward to seeing more Monarch Butterflies in our garden. Do keep me informed on the pick up date. Thank you very much.

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