Recently I received a packet of milkweed seeds for a $1 donation, thanks to Live Monarch Foundation.
All I had to do was mail a self addressed, a stamped envelope and $1 bill to:
Live Monarch Foundation
PO Box 1339
Blairsville, GA 30514
I enjoy gardening in the summer/warmer months and I particularly enjoy seeing butterflies visit the flowers in my garden. I’ve noticed over the past few years a major decline in the monarch butterflies that visit my butterfly bush and flowers. Reading up on the matter, I found out monarchs are in major decline because of many factors hindering their migration every year and the habitat that supports their survival.
To counter their decline, Live Monarch Foundation is hoping many people will plant milkweed seeds to grow this flowering plant on their property. This can probably help the monarch population by replenishing some of the habitat lost to building, deforestation, etc, Reason being, monarchs are totally dependent on milkweed to survive.
The milkweed plant is where monarchs lay their eggs, where the eggs hatch into larvae, then the larvae live off of the leaves of the milkweed plant, and it is where they do their miraculous transformation into a beautiful butterfly.
We do have a butterfly bush in our garden that the monarchs visit in the later months of summer, but it sounds much better to have the life sustaining milkweed plants. Once the plants get established they will bloom again the following years since the plant is a perennial.
If you have a spot in your garden that could be used every year for growing milkweed, please consider helping the monarch butterflies. Now is the time to get seeds to have a crop of milkweed plants this growing season.
Here are a few links to find out if you can grow milkweed in your part of the country and how to grow milkweed.
Planting Milkweed
Live Monarch Foundation
Video How to Grow Milkweed
If you do garden and you do grow milkweed, enjoy the process! Thank you.
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