Planning for Fall Planting 🪴
What qualities do you want in a garden?
Heat Brings the Sprouts 🌱
You may be looking for ways to bring new life to the garden as the heat rises and the blooms of our spring annuals go to seed. Now is the time to gather your milkweed seeds and start sowing.
Theodore Payne Foundation kindly asks for your help
in protecting the delicate balance of our native ecosystems by not sowing seeds in nature preserves, open spaces, wilderness, or post-burn areas. Our seed offerings are intended to be sown in cultivated and garden settings.
Butterflies Just Wanna Have Fun-astrum
Climbing milkweed (Funastrum cynanchoides ssp. hartwegii) is a perennial vine that thrives in hot, dry areas commonly found growing over rocks or other shrubs in canyons and washes. It has showy, pinkish-white flowers that resemble tiny stars. This vine is also the host plant for the Queen butterfly and Monarch butterfly. Like all California native milkweeds, it will begin to die back in the winter.
It is currently available at our Sun Valley nursery & Los Nogales Nursery, made possible through our Local Source Initiative.
Photos by @aspidoscelis on iNaturalist and Tim Becker, respectively
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