Milkweed QUICKSTART Guide for Monarch Butterflies
How to Grow Milkweed Fast to Attract and Support Monarchs…this season!
Sometimes when I tell people we’ve had 60 butterflies fluttering around our garden at one time, I can sense that they don’t quite believe what I’m saying…but I understand their reluctance. It was seeing one of these amazing monarch spectacles for myself that awoke my burning passion for butterfly gardening.
Since starting our Monarch Butterfly Garden in 2009, it hasn’t taken long to achieve spectacular results. Not only has our garden attracted more monarchs, it’s also attracted a bounty of beneficial pollinators including swallowtails, red admirals, painted ladies, and honey bees…even hyper-winged hummingbirds!
After raising monarchs for over 45 years and butterfly gardening for the past 15, I realized there were some less common gardening ideas that were bringing more monarchs to our back yard than I had ever dreamed…and they could do the same for your butterfly garden!
However, the monarch attracting techniques I was using weren’t the same-old general ideas found floating across the interverse. I had learned them from years of first-hand experience with monarchs, and from talking to other adventurous butterfly gardeners.
In the Milkweed Quickstart Guide for Monarch Butterflies ( a digital PDF milkweed for monarchs eBook), I reveal fast and easy milkweed growing tips that allow us to reliably host first spring monarch to the final fall migrator…whether you garden for monarchs, raise butterflies, or both!
After reading this, my goal is for you to never be caught with your plants down again!
What Will You Discover Inside?
- Why Milkweed for Monarchs?
- Planting Milkweed for Fast Growth
- Why Milkweed Seeds should not be your focus…to start
- How to Avoid Milkweed OVERWHELM 🌿🌿🌿🌿😱
- Which Milkweed Varieties should you grow…and why?
- How Much Milkweed should you plant?
- Where to Buy Milkweed both online and locally
- The Best Time(s) to Plant Milkweed
- Where to Plant Milkweed for Max Monarchs
- How to Plant Milkweed
- Milkweed Options for your Container Garden
- Plant Care Tips: watering, fertilizing
- How to Avoid Monarch-killing Pesticides
What Will You Receive?
- 1 PDF file, 25 pages
- 1 Milkweed GROWcery List Spreadsheet you can print out or download to keep track of plant purchases
- Illustrated with high-quality color photographs
- Updates: When this milkweed guide is updated with new info or resource links, you will receive a free revised copy sent to your email address
- Get your Exclusive 10% OFF Milkweed Discount inside this guide
- Receive everything listed above for a one-time payment of $17
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Good morning:
I find that most of the posts on this website are for the upper Peninsula areas and midwest US. I can never find information about milkweed types and cultivation techniques for central Florida (Tampa/St. Petersburg). I have tried growing several plants and they never succeed over the winter into spring even though our weather is mild. Could you give me some hints for our areas please? Specifically the scientific names of milkweed that will survive here.
Thank you.
Hi Joslyn, we’re located in Minnesota and most of the information on this site and for upcoming products is most helpful to the in the upper midwest. To find growing info specific to your region, facebook groups are a good resource if you search for gardening/butterfly groups located in Florida. Hope this helps, Tony G
Hi Tony,
I live in Australia Tony and was wondering if you could tell me the name of the milkweed plant that is featured in your article this time.The one with the pink flowers. I have the milkweed tree with the white flowers which the butterflies love. As we are now into Autumn our butterfly season is finished, although we did not see one butterfly this past summer.Very disappointing but guess that is nature. Also thank you for not publishing my name and email. Keep up the good work and I look forward to your next story.
Regards
Glenda
Hi Glenda, that is asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) It blooms prolifically in our northern US region, but it doesn’t perform as well in the southern US, which would be more similar to your climate.
This page might give you a few ideas, or provide resources where you could get first hand growing experience for your region hope this helps, Tony