Grow Milkweed Plants – Details, episodes & analysis

July 4th, 2024 In this episode we

• Recap Pollinator Week June 17th-23rd Order Milkweed Across the USA!: POM POM Paradise! Your purchase supports the show and you can enjoy the milkweed from Spring thru Winter between the pages of the book. 
• Shoutout to listener Mindy Frohlich and the staff at Millcreek Gardens!
• Member Questions from Grow Milkweed Plants Facebook Group

1. Does regular care/water inhibit milkweed flowering? I’ve nursed one for three years now, (left pic) and it’s never flowered even though I can find some much smaller flowering in the wild. Am I inadvertently fooling my plant somehow to not produce flowers? TIA. near Dallas. I’m assuming green milkweed..

2. So sad, this morning I was excited to check with the caterpillar and the ladybug that's on my milkweed but they're gone..did some insects came to devour them..all I have left is the poop...

• Milkweed Science Minute: links to facebook Pollinium Germination and Putative Ovule Penetration in Self- and Cross-pollinated Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca Author(s): Adam P. Kahn and Douglass H. Morse Source: The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 126, No. 1 (Jul., 1991), pp. 61-67

Have a very monarch summer!

If it's good for the butterflies. It's good for me.

Host: Brad Grimm

Recorded January 2023. 

Boby Gendron presents Asclepias from across the western United States.

RIP Tropical Milkweeds: Putting Your Garden To Bed This Autumn

Monarchs are in northern Mexico. Right on schedule for Day of the Dead.

Not all tropical milkweed are created equal.

Why native milkweed won't thrive in a subdivision

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Bringing Nature Home, Updated and Expanded: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

Arizona milkweed finally has a pollinator on the flowers. Western honey bee is moving from goldenrod to late blooming Arizona milkweed. To be fair to the plant. It blooms and fruits all summer long until there is a frost. 

A Dose of Milkweed with Danny Sanchez

Danny began gardening at an early age. Take a look at one of Danny's earliest experiences in the garden. 

Danny's passion for gardening has only grown over the years.

Guest: Danny Sanchez

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Host: Brad Grimm

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Two tour guides at a monarch reserve in Mexico have been found dead. Foul play is suspected. https://www.mimorelia.com/localizan-sin-vida-a-raul-hernandez-guia-turistico-de-la-mariposa-monarca/amp/

LA Times reports that a bloody war is brewing over "Blood Avocados". Is no one safe anymore? https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-20/mexico-cartel-violence-avocados

Sign the Change.org petition to boycott blood avocados from Mexico. https://www.change.org/p/whole-foods-boycott-mexican-avocados-buy-fair-trade

Xerces Society has released the Monarch Butterfly count for Western Monarchs; and they are bad. 29,418 monarchs counted. Below the threshold considered sustainable. Will the monarch migration in the West collapse? https://xerces.org/blog/western-monarchs-need-our-help-more-than-ever

Dr. Chip Taylor from Monarch Watch weighs in on western monarchs and the impact climate may have on the population. https://monarchwatch.org/blog/2020/02/25/monarchs-and-climate-in-the-west/?fbclid=IwAR2OuYfDhqegGypEdu92wPjpSzu_rbcRiSo8d5ZPLMNWmkFUnq2MHN967Lc

Host: Brad Grimm

44 GMP PODCAST SHOW NOTES

• #5 Calotropis gigantea and Calotropis procera. Kauai Seascapes Nursery Inc 4741 Kahiliholo Rd # A Kilauea, HI 96754 kauaiseascapesnursery.com
• #4 Private Residence (near public road) Calotropis procera. 5204 Kawaihau Rd Kapaa, HI  96746
• #3 Kapa’a First Hawaiian Church. Calotropis gigantea. Enjoy from public road. Advise not to enter property without permission. Address 4-1325 Kuhio Hwy Kapaa, HI  96746 North side of property. 
• #2 Puakea Golf Course Park Calotropis gigantea. 4391 Nuhou St Lihue, HI  96766 look East toward Costco Gas Station
• #1 Kekaha Beach Park Calotropis procera. 1-7698 Kaumualii Hwy Kekaha, HI  96756

MILKWEED HIT LIST
✔️ Asclepias asperula https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62298

✔️ Asclepias nyctaginifolia
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62294

✔️ Asclepias tuberosa
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47912

✔️ Asclepias linaria
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62295

✔️ Asclepias hypoleuca
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/158742

✔️ Asclepias nummularia https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/158751

What you will hear in this episode.

Asclepias cryptoceras grows in a remote location on a shale slope in the Great Basin east of Reno NV. Three experts and me have an unplanned meeting in the mountains and talk milkweed over a rare milkweed.

Cocoa Beach Florida has sun and fun but I take a time-out under an umbrella to talk about the diverse number of locally native milkweeds in central Florida. 

Guests: Anurag Agrawal, Elizabeth Pringle, Aramee Diethelm

Host: Brad Grimm

Monarch Population Status

The Xerces Society Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count 1997-2018

The Western Monarch Thanksgiving & New Year’s Counts

Second New Year’s Count Supports Monarchs Movement Between Sites

This master gardener is luring monarchs to Las Vegas

Host: Brad Grimm

Guests: Anne Marie Lardeau, Glenda Bona, Nestor Robles, David Dewenter

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Jet down to Oleander Acres to see if milkweed really is bigger in Texas.