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A monarch butterfly sipping nectar from milkweed flower. (Getty Images) By Joshua Siskin | [email protected]. PUBLISHED: August 20, 2022 at 7:37 AM PDT.

The question for many isn’t whether to grow milkweed, but how -- and which kind. In Connie Day’s Santa Monica garden, a tiger-colored monarch spars with another butterfly, chasing it from a ...

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Fragile populations of this increasingly elusive butterfly need milkweed, but beware: Some host plants might do more harm than good. For many people, it’s now a thrill to see a monarch butterfly ...

Question: Hi Carol, it's so interesting that you recently wrote an article on milkweed. I have purchased plants (Asclepias syriaca “Virginia Silk”) from Annie’s Garden, which I plan to plant ...

Milkweed is easy to grow because it is not fussy about soil composition; it does well in acidic, slightly alkaline, sand, loam, and clay soils.

Many of the butterflies the pair were hoping to see were milkweed butterflies. There are some 300 species in the group, including the iconic Monarch, all of which are toxic to would-be predators.