Milkweed
3 Gallon
- Bloom Time - Summer to Summer
- Exposure - Full Sun
- Water - Medium
- Height - 2 to 6 feet
- Spacing - 1.5 to 3 feet
- Hardiness - 20°F
- Hardiness Zones - USDA 8b to USDA Zone 11
Milkweed is a vibrant and essential addition to any garden. With its striking orange and red flowers, it’s not only a visual delight but also a crucial nectar source for butterflies, especially monarchs.
To care for milkweed plants, make sure to give your plant full sunlight. They prefer consistently moist soil, so water regularly (however not so much so that the plant becomes waterlogged). Winter indoors in cooler climates. In mild climates, milkweed can grow year-round.
About Our Plants
Our soil is custom blended and contains only the highest quality Canadian peat. We don’t try to cut cost with cheaper mixes. Additionally, all of our plants are grown with 100 to 180 day time release fertilizer so you won’t be running out of it just when the plants arrive. This is not the case with the quick release 30 day fertilizers that many other companies tend to use.
We do approximately 90% of our own liners. Since the cost is relatively inexpensive, we put twice as many liners in each container for many of the varieties. Accordingly, this makes for a much fuller plant.
All of our plants are given more than adequate spacing. For instance, most of the flowering bushes and trellis plants have 4 square feet of spacing. The Boston fern hanging baskets, for example, have 6 square feet. This allows our plants to grow as big and full as possible.