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Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds Part 2: Prepare Your Containers

January 11 By Tony Gomez

How To Winter Sow Milkweed Seeds- 11 Easy Steps

11 Easy Steps for Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds❓🌱🤔

How To Control Aphids On Milkweed Plants

July 9 By Tony Gomez

Aphid control is essential if you want to grow healthy milkweed plants for monarch butterflies. Here are 10 Ideas to control aphids naturally, and save more milkweed for munching monarch caterpillars.

Of all the questions I get about butterfly gardening, “How can I control aphids on my milkweed?” is probably the most frequent. Here are 10 ways to stop annoying aphids from taking over the monarchs’ milkweed supply.

5 Big Zinnia Flowers for a Busy Butterfly Garden + Growing Tips

May 7 By Tony Gomez

Eastern Tiger Swallowtails and Monarchs are both frequent visitors to the vibrantly colored Zowie Yellow Flame Zinnia. Get more info oon growing them in your garden...

Try These 5 Zinnia Flowers to Bring Home More Butterflies + One Dwarf Variety. Zinnia Care Tips to Prevent Powdery Mildew

Bringing Monarch Population Back From The Brink

February 5 By Tony Gomez

Monarch caterpillars need more milkweed to survive

While the monarch population is starting to see a slight recovery, there’s still much work to be done to bring the monarch migration back from the brink…

Monarchs Disappearing from Minnesota Gardens

July 5 By Tony Gomez

Are Monarch Butterflies Disappearing from Minnesota Gardens?

4 Things you can Try to Attract this year’s Small Population of Minnesota Monarchs…

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Save More Monarchs

The Butterfly Growing Kit is a monarch butterfly kit that includes a cage for raising butterflies, floral tubes for milkweed stem cuttings, and a digital book about how to raise monarch butterflies indoors. Get the tools you need for raising healthy monarch butterflies...

Monarch Butterfly Kits to Raise Caterpillars into Butterflies

25 Garden Variety Milkweeds

25+ Garden Variety Milkweed Plants- Ornamental Asclepias Asperula is a Stunning Milkweed Variety for the Butterfly Garden. It's also an important Host Plant and Nectar Source for Spring Monarch Butterflies.

25 Milkweed Plant Ideas for North American Butterfly Gardens


Butterfly Gift Ideas?

Monarch transformation pendants are glass blown butterfly jewelry created to look like real life monarch chrysalises.

Butterfly Gift Ideas for All Occasions

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Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds for Monarch Butterflies: What supplies will you need and what household items can you use for sowing containers?

Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds Part 1: Supply Checklist

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