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Gay Butterflies Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies')
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Experience the stunning 'Gay Butterflies,' Asclepius showcasing vivid orange, red and yellow blooms . The singular seed pods emerge shortly after each bloom is spent, adding intrigue to your garden while attracting a flurry of pollinators!
About Butterfly Weed
Commonly called Butterfly Weed, this perennial puts out showstopping orange clusters of flowers in midsummer.
As you might guess from the name, butterflies (including Swallowtails) love the sweet nectar this plant produces, so swarms of butterfly wings will arrive wherever you include this beauty planted.
Long slender seed pods burst in the fall sending a seed attached to a fluffy floating through your garden to reseed appreciate a weed.
This Asclepias variety is shorter than its cousins and doesn’t own their white, milky sap. It also prefers slightly drier conditions
\r\n\tSwamp Milkweed (Asclepias Incarnata)<\/em><\/strong> - This cousin of Butterfly Weed established as Swamp Milkweed blooms the first year from flower seed and tolerates heat, humidity, and even drought! Asclepias Incarnata flowers are fragrant, colorful, and carefree! A magnet for butterflies, Swamp Milkweed has flat-topped flower clusters that are easy for butterflies to land on, and they are vanilla-scented and rich in nectar. Growing Asclepias flower seeds is so rewarding knowing that these plants will soon be providing a food source for beneficial insects. Plants are typically found along streams and ditches or in moist areas of meadows and prairies. Plants flourish 4 to 5 feet elevated and have clusters of pink to mauve flowers at the tops of branches.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tAsclepias Incarnata is prized for attracting monarch butterflies, and its foliage is sufficiently tender for larvae to feed on making this plant very valuable to the monarch butterfly population. Swamp Milkweed flowers are also nice for cutting, and the blooms are long-lasting in fresh and dried bouquets. This native American plant loves entire sun and thrives in heat, humidity, and even drought. Swamp Milkweed plants prefer full s butterfly weed Gay Butterflies Group A herbaceous perennial with upright stems of narrow emerald leaves. Clusters of showy, waxy yellow, golden orange, pink or red flowers are produced from mid to belated summer. An terrific food source for butterflies South–facing or West–facing or East–facing Asclepias can be evergreen or deciduous perennials or subshrubs, with simple, entire leaves and umbel-like clusters of petty, distinctively shaped flowers followed by twin fruits containing seeds embedded in silky fibres Unresolved 28 inches 28 inches 3a Gay Butterflies Butterfly Weed has fragrant orange flat-top flowers with red overtones and yellow eyes at the ends of the stems from mid to late summer. The flowers are outstanding for cutting. Its slender leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. Gay Butterflies Butterfly Weed is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading behavior of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a superb choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who watch over to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics. Gay Butterflies Butterfly Weed is recommended for the following landscape applications; Gay Butterflies Butterfly Weed will blossom to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 28Asclepiastuberosa Gay Butterflies Group
Ultimate height
0.5–1 metres Time to ultimate height
2–5 years Ultimate spread
0.1–0.5 metres Moisture
Well–drainedpH
Acid, Alkaline, NeutralStem Flower Foliage Fruit Spring Leafy Summer Yellow Orange Red Pink Green Autumn Yellow Orange Red Pink Green Winter Aspect
Exposure
Sheltered Hardiness
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