Family fun at @latimes.com #festivalofbooks. Meet local #losangeles authors Larissa Brown & Christine Van Zandt on Sunday, 4/19, from 10-noon. At USC. #authors #illustrators #milkweedformonarchs @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social #blakelaser @harpercollins.bsky.social #kidsbooks #events #losangeles #scbwi
Asclepias hirtella seedlings beginning to pop inside winter sowing jug.
Asclepias latifolia seedlings beginning to pop inside winter sowing jug.
Asclepias viridiflora seedlings beginning to pop inside winter sowing jug.
Amorpha nana seedlings beginning to pop inside winter sowing jug.
Can’t remember if I posted about this but my last inspection of winter sowing jugs outside on 4/3 yielded ~15 more varieties so now we are at 40+ of 109 species germinated. Especially excited to see some #MilkweedForMonarchs & other #NativePlants surfacing finally.
#gardening #seeds #SmallJoys 🌱
Clockwise from top left: A Black Swallowtail Butterfly visits a yellow-flowering Asclepias tuberosa; the large pointy pink and white star blooms of Asclepias speciosa; tiny clusters of white blooms from Asclepias perennis; deep pink and white clusters of flowers from Asclepias incarnata; dangling chandeliers of white blooms from shade-tolerant Asclepias exaltata; rosy purple flowers of Asclepias purpurescens.
Which #NativePlants #MilkweedForMonarchs will you grow in your garden this year to feed their caterpillars, other nectaring #pollinators & #invertebrates who depend on this genus? Here are 6 that bloomed in my #Chicago #UrbsInHorto garden last year.
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He's just a cute little red milkweed beetle #Tetraopestetrophthalmus
on common milkweed🌸 #asclepiassyriaca
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Thank you, Saving Monarchs, for your endorsement! #gotmilkweed #milkweedformonarchs #buildingagreenerdupage
Soil components in a variety of trugs and storage containers ready for scooping.
Two rows of milk jugs open and filled with soil ready for sowing.
A little tamping to make sure the seed have good contact when sown plus my favorite garden tool, a Nopales grocery crate Mr. CMG snagged from the alley for me so I can carry 6-10 containers out at once instead of 2 or 4 (small hands).
1st #AlwaysBePlanting winter sowing of 2026–exhausted! Heavy on #MilkweedForMonarchs, Midwest #NativePlants species plus some Western xerics (looking for better fit for my un-prairie urban trouble spots). Also Agastache nepetoides, Cirsium discolor, Galium boreale, & Polytaenia nuttallii. 🌱 (1/2)
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Giant packet of huge Asclepias perennis seeds plus smaller packets of Asclepias hirtella and fascicularis.
Is there such a thing as too much #MilkweedForMonarchs? Impossible! 🦋🐛
#gardening #butterflies #ecosystem #NoSpray #MonarchButterflies 🌱
Healthy clean seeds in three clear plastic baggies labeled with their scientific names.
Collected #seeds for 2+ less common IL #NativePlants #MilkweedForMonarchs sourced from tiny Etsy shop (Asclepias amplexicaulis & variegata). Plus Silphium albiflorum (TX native) just because it sounds lovely. Gonna be a busy winter sowing jug season here!
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Small brown envelopes marked from Fellabees Native Seeds ‘Hand Reared, Hand Picked, Hand Packed’ in Wisconsin for Asclepias stenophylla, Asclepias viridiflora, Agastache nepetoides, Symphyotrichum pilosum and Anaphalis margaritacea. Packet prices were even lower (except Asclepias) on sale when I shopped.
Trying out new #seeds suppliers this year that arrived just in time for #SmallBusinessSaturday. Cannot speak to performance yet but definitely packed lovingly & super excited to winter sow. Especially very hard-to-source Illinois #NativePlants #MilkweedForMonarchs Asclepias stenophylla. #gardening 🌱
Yellow packets of seeds arranged on a grey background for the following: Asclepias verticillata, Asclepias asperula, Asclepias angustifolia, Asclepias latifolia, Asclepias subverticillata (Low Elevation strain), Gomphocarpus physocarpus, Salvia coccinea, Thelesperma filifolium, Linum lewisii, Pepper ‘Nuevo Sandia’, Squash ‘Zappallo de Tronco’, Tomato ‘Zapotec Ribbed’ plus freebies Tomato ‘Red Mortgage Lifter’ & Eupatorium maculatum.
Hard trying not to sing “Ohhhh, baby, I love your #seeds” 🎤🎧 when walking back from the mailbox when new future plants arrive. 😆
#gardening #pollinators #butterflies #GrowFood #KitchenGarden #MilkweedForMonarchs 🌱
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A small grey and brown Cattle Dog sits at the edge of a bed she likes to hide under with the comforter draped over her head like a nun’s whimple as it got stuck when she popped out waiting for me to do something, anything “fun” according to her.
Damp cool day so #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey and I are browsing seed catalogs & online sales, ordering so many #MilkweedForMonarchs #seeds for winter sowing this year, & doing totally normal Cattle Dog stuff.
#gardening #DogsOfBlueSky #ACDLife 🌱
Brown chicken, brown cow🎵
Banded longhorn flower beetles getting busy on swamp milkweed🌸
Aren't milkweed flowers the coolest?
8/7/25
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Tomorrow I'll share my passion for helping monarch caterpillars and butterflies via my #milkweedformonarchs #nonfiction #picturebook by @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social. I'll be receiving the Excellence in Nonfiction Award from the Children's Literature Council of Southern California (CLCSC). #milkweed
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Milkweed seed pod burst open revealing seeds
🌿If you plant Native Milkweed seeds now in Santa Barbara County...
By late spring through summer, your milkweed will host a whole community: monarch caterpillars, aphids, ladybugs, lacewings, and sometimes wasps🦋🐞🐝
This is a sign of balance⚖️
#GrowNativePlants #PollinatorGarden #MilkweedForMonarchs
Good morning, beautiful!😍
#symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #biodiversityconservation #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
Whimsical milkweed😍
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Hot out the chrysalis🐛
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A beautiful fresh Monarch nectaring on fluffy puffs of purple Liatris.
Monarchs really do love their #NativePlants. There were up to 4 at a time fighting for a spot at the Liatris table.
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A chonky baby and its poo. So far, a lot of chrysalises in the yard don't look very healthy😔 Every year, I have to remind myself that only 1 of 10 survive to healthy adulthood... so every cat counts! 🐛 #milkweedformonarchs #nativeplants #danausplexippus #bugsky #Michigangardening 🌱 #pollinators
A Monarch perched in a cluster of pink Asclepias incarnata.
Definitely feeling it *everywhere* from all the #gardening I did yesterday. These are the sacrifices I make for my fluttery frens. Wish I could stay in bed but Mr. CMG has planned an adventure.
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An orange and black/white spotted Monarch female resting on some foliage.
A pristine Black Swallowtail female butterfly resting on foliage.
Was hurting today so Mr. CMG was kind enough to do some overdue harvesting for me. While he was out there, he kept sending me pics of all the pretty girls he was hanging out with in the garden. 😍
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Milkweed tussock moth cat and monarch cat on swamp milkweed being transported to other swamp milkweed
Two monarch cats, probably 4th instar, on milkweed
We're getting a new roof this week & I'm out of my mind about all the plants I have around my house. Are they going to smash them all? I already moved all my caterpillar babies to milkweed out in the yard so they're not in danger. #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #bugsky #nativeplants
Female monarch on echinacea purpurea with culver's root (veronicastrum virginicum), rosin weed (silphium integrifolium) and scarlet beebalm (monarda didyma) in the background
This tattered little girl visited us today. I love that she feels safe in our pollinator oasis with over 30 milkweed plants and dozens of flowers with nutritious nectar. ♥️Welcome! #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #biodiversityconservation #echinaceapurpurea
An orange and black/white spotted Monarch male visits pink Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed).
Monarchs & Eastern Tigers fighting for territory daily now.
#gardening #bloomscrolling #MilkweedForMonarchs #butterflies #pollinators #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
