Milkweed Plant: Friend or Foe for Farms?
September 5, 2025The milkweed plant may pose challenges for farms with livestock, but it also plays an irreplaceable role in supporting monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
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The milkweed plant may pose challenges for farms with livestock, but it also plays an irreplaceable role in supporting monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Grow native milkweed to help monarch butterflies! Cold stratification is essential for good germination rates—and simple when you let Mother Nature do the work.
The U.S. Botanic Garden located at the National Mall features several themed gardens worth meandering when visiting the nation’s capital.
Milkweed not only beautifies the garden, it attracts interesting insects, too!
Good weeds. These two words together create what might seem to be the single biggest oxymoron in the gardening world.