🐛Feels like a good day for some monarch cats from the garden this past season. On poke & swamp milkweeds #asclepiasexaltata #asclepiasincarnata #danausplexippus
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Whimsical milkweed😍
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Swamp milkweed blooms with monarch cat

Common milkweed jungle

Cats on swamp milkweed

Just a few of the dozens🐛😍 They have taken up residence in all forms of milkweed in the yard: common, swamp, poke & butterfly🌿
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😍 I'm so exalted my poke milkweed #asclepiasexaltata has bloomed its cool popcorn blossoms😍
Been waiting for 3 years!
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It's that "Wohoo! It's growing!" time of year!
Wohoo! My poke milkweed has buds! I now get their scientific name.
I've only ever seen them blooming in the wild😍🤍
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