Asclepias gay butterflies

Gay Butterflies Milkweed, A brilliantly colored milkweed with fiery shades of red, orange, and yellow in summer. This easy-care, well-behaved plant needs little. Developed from a native North American wildflower, this is an important source of food for Monarch Butterflies. Forms an upright clump of narrow green leaves, bearing showy clusters flowers in mid to late summer in shades of yellow, gold, orange and scarlet.

Asclepias tuberosa Gay Butterflies Mix is a brilliantly colored mix of native Butterfly Weed in shades of fiery red, orange, and yellow, blooms in June through August, when flowers appear in dense clusters. Buy Gay Butterflies butterfly weed at your local garden center! – American Beauties Native Plants. Plants bloom in shades of fiery red, orange, and yellow in June and July and sometimes even longer.

They are irresistible to butterflies and hummingbirds love them too.

asclepias milkweed

Colorful mix of red, orange and lemon-yellow blooms lures butterflies to garden. Both the flowers and pods can be used in fresh and dried floral arrangements. Once established, it's drought tolerant. Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies'Z • H"xW" • Mid to Late Summer • Full Sun. Takes root easily and thrives in full sun, after one year my plants doubled in size and this year I planted these a couple of years ago.

The first season I was unimpressed. The second season they Asclepias tuberosa Gay Butterflies Mix is a brilliantly colored mix of native Butterfly Weed in shades of fiery red, orange, and yellow, blooms in June through August, when flowers appear in dense clusters. Butterfly Weed adds sizzle to the hot-colored border and is magical with Liatris , Echinacea and native grasses such as Little Bluestem and Prairie Dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis.

Slim, decorative seed pods, coveted by flower arrangers, later open to release papery seeds on silky parachutes. A favorite of pollinators and other beneficial insects, these well-behaved drought-tolerant milkweeds, essential for the survival of Monarch butterflies, are avoided by deer. They require well-drained soil.

Because we cannot guarantee the complete assortment of bloom colors in this seed mix, we offer the plants in multiples of 3 to provide a sampling of the full color range. Of the species in the genus Asclepias, the best known are North American wildflowers. They have small, curiously shaped blooms that appear in dense clusters. These plants provide nourishment for Monarch butterflies through all their life stages, and are essential for their survival.

For more information on the growing and care of Asclepias tuberosa , click Growing Guide. A pop up will open with the 3D model of the item. You can move the 3D model around with your mouse if on a computer or with your finger on your device. The 3D model represents a mature plant that is approximately 3 years old. Make sure your device has a camera and is connected to the internet. If you want to see the item in your garden and are on your computer, click the 3D Model image on your computer and a QR code will open that will allow you to open the link on your device.

Once you have clicked the 3D Model image on your device, go outside and face your device camera toward where you would like to see how the item will look in your garden. To see the item in your own garden, click on the [AR] link in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. You might need to wait a few seconds for the AR experience to load. This only works from a device with a camera such as a mobile phone or a tablet.

You can adjust the position of the virtual item by using two fingers to resize the item, or one finger to move the item around the screen, until you're satisfied with how it looks. To get an accurate sense of the size of this item, we recommend measuring out the area where you would like to plant it the spacing for this item is 12" , and staking or flagging the borders so that you will have an accurate idea for the mature size of the item while using AR the magnifier only enlarges the 3D model of the item, it does not change the actual size of the item.

Move your device around to view the item from different angles and get a better idea of how it will look in your garden. Once you have everything lined up, take a screenshot or tap the screen to show the AR experience controls and press the white circle to take a photo of the AR image to save it for future reference. If you decide to purchase the item, you can use the AR image as a reference for placement in your garden.

The size of the plants we ship has been selected to reduce the shock of transplanting. For some, this means a large, bareroot crown. Others cannot travel bareroot or transplant best if grown in containers. We ship these perennials and annuals in 1 pint pots, except as noted.