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Growing Milkweed for Monarch Butterflies
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2013
- Monarch butterflies have suffered a severe population decline and you can help provide habitat for them during their migration by growing milkweed. There are more than 40 varieties, one perfect for your climate. Christy Wilhelmi from Gardenerd shows you how and why we need to grow milkweed. Make a plan to grow it this spring!
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Here because of Momma Donna!! Save the milkweeds and monarchs!
She really was trying to avoid saying balls, made me laugh even more! Sinner, LOL!
The other name is “family jewels”.
Stay on topic. Your comments don't benefit any butterflies do they?
Now I gotta see some hairy balls. (Note to friends: I don’t care what you think!) 🤪
I am so guilty. That was funny
@@NotsoFree_StateofFlorida Relax. It was a little funny. Or I'm a bit immature. 🤣 Anyway, #SaveTheButterflies #PlantHairyBalls
Now it’s because of roundup. Roundup targets milkweed because of the big cattle farms in the west and midwestern states. Here in Florida you don’t see milkweed because everything is sprayed with roundup.
I get plants at Lowe's. We don't spray our yard! I have been successfully raising monarchs for a year now!
I added milkweed to my garden and I had monarch caterpillars right away! It's amazing how they know!
She smiled naughtily with the `hairy balls' thing.
Nice video. thanks for the call to action. Planting milkweed for the monarch migration is very important. Support your local milkweed supplier and become a resource yourself.
livemonarch Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I’m so excited I bought native milkweed and can’t wait to see them grow nice n tall & feed the butterflies and bees!
Good luck!
Great video, funny too, she is so cute trying not to laugh herself.
gawd I love this gal. Genuine and professional with a sense of humor. Thank you!
Well, this video is more important than ever. Thanks for the info
I would have love plant 1000 milkweed in my backyard :D
Please everyone plant milkweed in your backyard. One is not enough. Try at least 20 milkweed. Thanks for support Monarch..BTW I'm from Australia and Monarch seem less and less...but in other area there good plenty Monarch over there...
Wezilla I just bought 2 plants today, I sure hope they don’t die on me. Will they come up every year?
@@rosalynfreeman1122 Yes. Milkweeds will come up every year from the taproot.
What variety did you get?
WOW...Thank you. Not in several years, but in the past, I had those caterpillars on my parsley and didn't know what they were. I will leave them alone if I see them again. Gonna look for Milkweed seeds.
The caterpillars on parsley are most likely Swallowtail caterpillars. They also need food, but I wish they wouldn't eat my parsley!
I had a feeling everyone was going to laugh about the hairy balls but in all honesty, it was one of the better videos about plants in general. Thanks for that straight forward tutorial. I have two flats of common and Pink Swamp that are germinated so looking forward to the butterflies flying my way.
Save the milkweed! Save the monarch! Keep planting seeds :)
Started from seed about 4 months ago. Very easy to grow, I just hope they survive the Jersey winter!
How’d they do
You had me at Hairy Balls
Omg you had me dying after explaining their nickname 😂😂
Made me smile.
Nice video. I have a bunch of milkweed plants, started with two small buck-a-piece plants. In the last 3 and a half/4 years dozens of monarchs have been born in our back yards -the old house and the one we moved to. This year I saved the seeds and have planted in little potting trays. I plan to give away seedlings in our neighborhood in the next 2-3 weeks. Anyone in Sugar Land- Richmond-Rosenberg- Katy area interested, let me know.
omg you're super cool!
Thank you! :)
Thanks Gardenerd! My wife and I are pimping monarchs like crazy and I've struggled with growing tropical milkweed from seed so this was helpful. Long live Hairy Balls!
Randy Baker Good! Just make sure you're planting native milkweed for your area, or cut down non-natives in winter so they don't harbor pathogens that end up killing the Monarchs we're trying to save.
You should have showed the milkweed plant so they could see what it looks like! I have on in my backyard and it beautiful! It’s covered with all size of monarch butterfly caterpillars right now! The puff balls are cool 😎
If you plant in they will come 🦋
Thank you for the informative video. Christy has an infectious smile.
It's my 3rd year of growing milkweed, the 1st I bought the plant and had fun releasing the seeds into the wind. The 2nd year I noticed ones that germinated in other sections of my garden. This year I collected the pods and will germinate them in pots as I find transplanting them to be difficult. For me understanding which flowering plants are easy to cultivate is way better than buying them from box stores.
Excellent information about milkweed for monarch butterflies. thank you.
Thank you for the information! I would have like to see the whole plant and a close up of the leaves and flowers.
I like the directions for planting milkweed. I like the photos and information.
Haha..was hard to keep a straight face😆🌳🥰I am new and liked it. Love gardening ..trees and plants ..Thank you for the learning ..clear and light-hearted.
I love how you can't keep your mind out of the gutter, I'd recognize that guilty smile anywhere haha
Greg...was pretty obvious, aye ? You were just humorously pointing out the obvious in a fun way; you didn't debase the video in the slightest--our youtuber friend didn't hide it either. The sicko is "K" :)
hey I started some milkweed last year and it is coming back this year. Saw my 1st monarch this year yay. No larva tho...I planted native milkweed, and have some extra seeds if you want some....
I just learned that the invasive Spotted Lanterfly does not know this is poisonous to itself. Now I get to defend my property from the lanterfly while helping the Monarchs. :)
You were so cute and funny!
You need to add other native, nectar rich food sources for the monarchs. When I lived in central Texas, they would lay eggs on the milkweed, but feast on Gregg's blue mistflower, and Maximillian sunflowers, Mexican mint marigold and others. My friend's field was about half native milkweed. The other half was native wildflower mix. I don't think I can even begin to name everything, but the point was that something was blooming ALL the time. There were bluebonnets, sunflowers, standing cypress, Mexican hats, rain lilies, etc. The butterflies need nectar and a water supply.
lol, "hairy balls." awesome.
You make a fun and lively video. I subscribed.
Thanks for subscribing!
Great job . Happy butterflying.
I live north of San Francisco. After the fires we had 2 years ago, I have not seen one monarch. I have several milkweed plants and zero eggs. Previous to the fires I had lots of eggs that I raised and eventually released.
Sorry to hear about that, Nancy. I did read something a while ago that the populations are back up in Mexico, so there's hope for a return in the future. Keep planting native milkweeds and, as the saying goes, "if you build it, they will come."
Her trying not to laugh was really funny.
Thanks. Maybe next time you can show the whole plant and give information on the care, pruning & fertilization.
Great idea. But since there are more than 100 types of milkweed in North America we've left that part out. Be sure to check with your native plant society for the best milkweed for your area, and they will also have care instructions for that specific variety.
@@Gardenerd I have Milkweed, my first. I was hoping to see to see your full plant, Mine has grown almost 6ft. Caterpillars did their job throughout the Spring. Almost all the leaves are gone. The monarch butterflies were beautiful.
I just recently received some free seeds and I am so excited to plant them! I have a packet of narrow leaf milkweed and a nectar mix. I believe you are in California.. I got mine through Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and I think they send seeds to anyone in CA. They send you ones depending on where in CA and how close to the coast you are. So if you or anyone in CA is looking for some native milkweed seeds check them out
How get my I live in Georgia
I want free milkweed seeds
So I guess if I decide to dress up as milk weed for Halloween, I know the extra accessory I need to seal the deal and make it obvious.
Aside, thank you for the informative video
TY
More people shout be involved in growing these plants
You had me at "hairy balls."
I just found this plant at our local garden shop. I couldn't believe what I was looking at, then was educated on the use/purpose of this amazing plant. Are they hard to take care of? And you are right, they do create quite the graden conversation! :)
Milkweed is about as easy to take care of as a succulent. Just make sure it's a variety that is native to your area, and prune it back once the flowers finish if you want to prevent seeds from wandering everywhere.
Thank you!!
Thank you. I have some in my gardens.
I would to have like to see more of the plant
SaveOurMonarchs distributes free Milkweed Seed Packets to anyone requesting them at our website, SaveOurMonarchs.org.
In 2015, over 1 million Milkweed Seed Packets were distributed.
In 2016, we expect to distribute over 2 million.
Your support would be greatly appreciated.
+Ward Johnson Thanks for sharing, Ward. I assume you guys are making sure that those milkweed seeds are native to the areas where they are sent. Great work. A recent report shows that Monarch numbers are up for 2015. We still have a ways to go, but it's a good sign.
Wee. Saveourmonarchs. Com
who are the 87 people who did a thumbs down? How can you not like monarch butterflies?!
It's related to the fact that we should only be recommending native milkweeds, not the variety shown in the video. I have made the native milkweed recommendation countless times in the comments, but...you know...never read the comments. This video was made before the mainstream awareness that tropical milkweeds can harbor a disease that kills Monarchs.
Great Video .. Thank You ❣️
Your such a cuti pie...smiling while saying hairy balls. hahahaha I planted some butterfly weed, gay feather and Joe Pye today in the green house. So looking forward to getting it outside :)
I first came across wild milkweed in Virginia and was just taken away with the beautiful fragrance ❤😊
lol you made me laugh :) harryyyy ballllss thanks
very attractive...in the garden...lol
*hairy
I’m
Another useless comment. Are you going to help and plant something?
Last year they ate my hollyhocks this year im ready with milkweed this year 🙌🏼
Lol you had me laughing! Thanks for sharing
What variety was that! My plants got eaten and now they’re growing back and I made 6 cuttings! Some seeds need stratification, in the frig for 2-3 months in wet peat moss! 35 so far!
The 'hairy balls' plant is actually is actually called Asclepias physocarpa and Gomphocarpus physocarpus is the new botanical name.
monarchbutterflygarden.net/milkweed-plant-seed-resources/asclepias-physocarpa/
Asclepias fruticosa (Gomphocarpus fruticosus) has rounded pods that come to a point. That is nicknamed swan plant because the point resembles a beak.
Thanks for the correction. We saw it listed on the unreliable interwebs as several different types of Asclepias. We picked what we thought was most common. And I just can't say Gomphocarpus physocarpus, so after a few takes we just cut that part.
Charming host and very lovely as well.
I've always had a few dozen common milkweed plants growing on the edge of a field next to my house. The milkweed sprouts up much later than anything else, so at some point I realized if I spray the area lightly with roundup early in the spring before the milkweed sprouts up, it won't have much competition and start to multiply faster. Now there are probably several thousand milkweed plants out there after only a few years. Monarchs are everywhere. When I step outside, I get swarmed. They get into the house and fly around when I'm trying to eat breakfast. I can't sleep at night because I can hear them scratching around in the walls. It's actually pretty awful.
Lol. I'm scared to plant milkweed now :/
As my father would say, you had me at "hairy balls"
I knew Harry Balls, good fella, a little on the wild side.
Bouquet 💅.Obeisance ji. I like your sobriety that is blessedness and beautifully illustrated about Asclepius tube Rosa weed plant which is most liking butterflies.Enjoy beauty fragrance of world 🙏.
I have both regular and Swamp Milkweed in my garden
great :) will plant!
That is fantastic news!
They also love parsley
We've only found swallowtail caterpillars on our parsley here at Gardenerd HQ. The Swallowtail worms also ate our dill. They have good taste!
Backyard planting is great but we need giant patches as in the past. At regular intervals going north and south. The length of the country. They need regular stops to feed and lay eggs. Cities and counties could plant fields and roadsides to help. Farmers can reverse some of their detrimental practices and leave areas in the countryside. Don't forget nectar gardens either.
i have a milkweed plant and im helping to build up the monarch butterfly
Thanks for the tips
The wasps and preying mantis in New Zealand are killing off our monarchs . They eat the caterpillars and even eat the crysalises . Its so bad that I have to keep my swan plants and caterpillars in pots inside my conservatory . I managed to raise 25 monarch butterflys this summer ...Luckily I have a conservatory because the caterpillars just dont survive outside any more ..
Wow! I thought New Zealand didn't have anything that could kill you, but I guess Monarchs are a different story. Thanks for doing your part to keep the caterpillars alive.
Their main threat where I'm at is the Tachinid fly. About 80% of the caterpillars I find in the wild are infected by that fly, they'll usually have 2-3 maggots inside them that kill them in about 12 days once infected. Wasps too, but mostly that fly.
(Sorry my English is not very good, so plz understand my poor expression)
Does milk weed fruit that comes out with the same juice as milk when it's picked at the tree? I think i have milk weed in my garden, but i havent seen any harm or invasive to other plants.
@@Gardenerd what i would like to know is that if i can eat milk weed fruits. I have been eating this fruits for years and i found that its really yummy. I usually make soups or fry with capsicum and carrot.
Do you think it will be okay?
@@Gardenerd i live in Auckland, New zealand
My milkweed got completely stripped and I have to keep it in a greenhouse now until it's big enough again to support more of those voracious caterpillars.
Thanks for the video. I love your hairy balls. LOL!! :D
you are awesome!! thank you!
That plant is the best one because they're really tall and have so many leaves to feed those chubby caterpillars. Very easy to root too. Maybe Balloon Balls was a better name to choose rather than Hairy Balls, but too late now.
Thumbs up just for saying harry balls! Thanks for the laugh 😹
thank you so much for the info, we just got a plant, in a pot on the deck, maybe needs to go in the ground ?
It depends on how happy it is in the pot. If it's a native variety it will probably fare better in the ground.
Ok...this was my first time seeing one of ur videos and had to instantly subscribe!
I'm literally crying laughing 😂😂!! (the video is long over btw..lol)
Not only do I love gardening, but absolutely love our winged friends🐦 & pollinators 🐛🦋🐝🦇..😍
So, thanks for fighting through narration after "big hairy balls" 🤣😂
Thanks for subscribing, Keri! And welcome to the Gardenerd community. We've got other videos on flowers in our Plants for Pollinators series. Be sure to check those out!
@@Gardenerd Thank u for the content👍
Lol...i already did. Binge watched last night 😂
Planning out a few new wildflower beds for pollinators today so I can sow in the fall..
Wish me luck
I planted the seeds, kept the seed bed moist and now it looks like I just have a bunch of weeds and nothing else after about 30 days but never having grown it before I am afraid to take out the weeds for fear it's milkweed
+Keith Mittan It's hard to tell which are plants and which are weeds, but here's one way to tell: Look up the millkweed variety you planted in Google Images and add the word "sprout" after it. You'll see results that will hopefully identify what your variety looks like when it sprouts. If none of them match what you see in your garden, pull them out and start over. It could be that birds came and ate your seeds. You can try starting the seeds in trays this time, or indoors, to ensure germination. Then plant them out when they have a couple sets of true leaves. Good luck!
As long as it’s a native milkweed in your state so once the milkweed dies back the butterflies continues its migration to the south. If it’s not a native plants and it doesn’t die back the butterfly stays doesn’t migrate and dies .
I have tried growing about 12 different varieties of milkweeds and harryballs is by far the best. I finally have enough milkweed for those hungry caterpillars. Do you do anything special with seeds after collecting? Refrigerate or anything?
As with all seed-saving, it's a great idea to put your seeds, once fully dried, into a jar with a lid in the freezer for 3 days to kill off any bugs or eggs that may reside on the seeds. Then bring them back to room temperature with the lid still on. Then they will be shelf stable.
Already got some HB's
Great would be nice to live in a Monarch Butterfly trail
That milkweed is known also as The Bishop’s Balls, Balloon Plant, Cotton Balls, Giant Swan Milkweed and Swan Plant, to name just a few.
How long did it take for your milkweed to get that big? I live in South Florida and our milk weed plants take a while to get that big! They also have to get mature before getting seed pods.
This particular variety of milkweed gets over 6 feet tall during a normal growing season. I can't remember how long it took, but I remember it shot up pretty quickly. A note to say this is not a native milkweed, and we much prefer that people grow milkweeds native to their growing region instead.
Q: I just received my seeds that I had ordered. Now that I started looking how to grow milkweed I realize it better to start germanating the seeds like 2 months before spring. So should I just wait for next summer to have a go at this or do you think if I plant the seeds now they will be big enough to provide enough food for the monarch?
+Jeffery Jarjour I think you should plant now and let them get going as soon as possible. If you have a long summer, the plants may reach the seed stage and reseed themselves for next year. Then you won't have to plant again. Even if they aren't ready in time for the monarchs, you're starting the process of building your ecosystem. Go for it.
Here in New Mexico, I have noticed places where prairie dogs have cut all the surrounding vegetation low except for the Milkweed. In these areas the Milkweed multiplies. Prairie dogs seem to be the monarch butterflies best friend. Has anyone studied this?
I now have the same question you do...
I want to know as much as I can about rebuilding ecosystems and this particular question falls under the category of prarie/wildflower reseeding. I'm actively studying how to reverse desertification and realizing that I can't just throw seeds and hope for the best. I have to consider the wildlife that would begin populating the area, their predators and lifecycles and look at companion plantings, soil fertility and microbial life too. Like, soil innoculations of beneficial bacteria and fungus, etc...
Are prarie dogs good for soil tilling in the same way that hogs are great for clearing out forest undergrowth when penned in? Why do prairiedogs leave the milkweed alone? Or is it that the milkweed can outcompete against prarie dog activity? My immediate assumption is that milkweed produces an alkaline toxin that Monarch butterflies like to eat to make themselves toxic as well (survival tactic to make them unappealing to predators). That being said the assumption proposes that prariedogs find milkweed to be unappetizing or otherwise harmful to their health. If true, then yes, prarie dogs can be assumed to be a beneficial companion species for monarchs due to their ability to clear other vegetation leaving room for subsequent new growth of milkweed in the future (assuming new growth can outcompete against any other new growth of competitor plant species.)
The very next video I watched answered this question for us. It took me a while to track down our thread to share the answer with you, so I hope you get to find out. I had to type it out for you to search because youtube won't let me post the hyperlink.
Nature at your doorstep channel; "Everything you need to know about Milkweed."
Like 3 minutes in, he says herbivores wont eat milkweed because of the toxins. So there you have it.
Now that was funny.
will any variety of milkweed help the butterflies? what are the light requirements? Thanks!
Jennifer S, there are more than 100 varieties of milkweed, and they all feed butterflies. But it's best to find the milkweed varieties that are native to your area. You can check with your local native plant society or Xerces.org for the types best suited for your area. Most milkweeds require full sun, but there are a few that are good with part shade. Once you narrow down to which varieties are best suited to your area, those plant profiles will list sun requirements for them.
Any idea how Monarch butterflies are able to identify a milkweed plant to lay its eggs?
+Mark Cross Monarchs, like any insect, is able to detect the host plant by sensing it's chemical signature. I was astounded last summer to watch monarch butterflies making a bee line to my swamp milkweeds from hundreds of feet away. They would even return to the same plant several times. This is one of my all time favorite plants.
Very kool video.Just A Quesrion Do Monarch Butterlys Eat Indian Hemp?
Andrew Homa, according to this article (www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=APCA), here's what I found about Indian Hemp plants: "Once thought to be a larval food for Monarch butterflies, research has shown that while adult female Monarchs will occasionally oviposit on this species, their offspring will not mature on it."
Awesome
got plants in sunroom new zealand south island, autumn weather outside. but I have butterflies hatching out and its too cold to let them go outside, what do I do ?
Oh, dear. That is a dilemma. You might want to contact the folks at www.nzbutterflies.org.nz/ a moth and butterfly trust in NZ. They will know what plants are needed to keep those critters alive in captivity, or will be able to suggest where/when to release them with the proper timing.
If I grow this, will that affect my fruit trees? I often have the white butterfly and they put their eggs on the peaches and then I have no peaches 😪 Where would you suggest me planting it?
Milkweed won't affect your fruit trees at all. If a swallowtail or moth lays eggs on your fruit trees, it's not because of milkweed. Milkweed is specifically the food of Monarchs, so I wouldn't worry about it. I have milkweed planted right under my apple tree. Never an issue.
I collected about 30 Eggs or Caterpillars of the Monarch. But I do not have enough Milkweed plants for them when they will eat a lot.
Where can I get Milkweed plants now with or without roots? Please help!
Have you checked your local nursery for milkweed in stock? Native plant nurseries may have some now as well.
That looks sooooo different from the milkweed in Michigan.
Hi everyone! Great video!!! Could someone tell me Milkweed's temperature? Does it live in 36 F*? ...I think that she said that monarch B. only grows in milkweed plants. But I think that I saw the same color and shapes of worms, kind of Platinium green and yellow with black in a Fennel plant. They were beautiful worms just like Monarch's Worms. I found them eating from my FENNEL PLANT. Because their image matched with a picture of a Monarch's, I left them to eat my plant. The fennel was GOURGUOS. She had beautiful flowers, with tiny little white flowers, almost invisible. They ate the flowers, and I could feel that the plant was suffering, and that was causing her to star the dying process. It didn't die at the end. I would like to believe that Monarch's B. had evolved and now they also grow in other plants than the milkweed plant.
What you've got there is a Swallowtail caterpillar. They look similar but they feed on different plants, particularly members of the Umbel family: parsley, dill, fennel, celery, carrots).
I wonder if milkweed likes really sunny area? Giving it a try this year.
Most milkweeds are full sun, but there are over 100 types out there, so there are problem a few that work in shade.
Thanks...I'll put most in full sun then for better results !!
I Been getting orange littel bugs on top of plant do you suggest anything
If they are black and orange it's most likely the milkweed beetle. If just orange, it's probably aphids. I don't treat for them, but welcome ladybugs to do the job for me.
Does the plant bloom until frost like tropical milkweed?
I only know from my own experience growing here in SoCal where we don't get a frost. I've seen this particular milkweed holding shape (not making new flowers but still holding the pods) in December.