The 2 Best Milkweeds for Your Butterfly Garden!

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Not all milkweeds are created equal when it comes to suitability for small butterfly gardens. In this video I cover what I believe are the two best milkweed species – swamp milkweed and butterfly milkweed – for butterfly gardening in eastern North America.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to the Milkweeds the Asclepias Species
0:21 Swamp or Rose Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
1:17 How Milkweeds Were Chosen for This List
2:37 Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
3:47 Deer and Rabbit Resistance of Milkweed