'Swamp Milkweed'
Nice form with dark to light pink lavender flowers with a few white plants mixed in too. Fragrant flowers loved by butterflies. Easy to grow from seed and long lived plants for the border garden or pond planting. Loved by butterflies and long blooming in midsummer. Plants grow 3 to 4 feet tall and do best in full sun but do very well in a good amount of shade too. Moisture loving and they will grow in damp to wet soil but growing nicely in average garden soil too. Plants grow 4 feet tall and in cultivation will have as many as 12 stems, just covered with umbels of flowers. Should produce a good number of nice dark flowering plants too. Use around ponds, lakes, low ground or in the garden. Do not let the Monarch Butterflies have their way with this plant-they love it and will eat away all the leaves. Attractive in the garden and does very well in normal-good garden soils, give the plants some light shade during the hottest part of the day and they will grow in dry soils as long as the soils are deep and they can spread out their root system. In the spring one needs to be careful to not remove the plants during spring planting, since the emergence of new shoots is late and occurs after most all other plants have come out of the ground.
Zones 3-8.
50 seeds
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