If you have taken a digital photo of this variety, simply email your original photo to photo@botanicalinterests.com. Your photo will help other gardeners understand how this variety grows in real life!
We may crop the photo or change it slightly but will give you credit for the photo! We also may not add your photo if we already have enough photos of a particular variety or if the photo isn't exactly what we are looking for to represent the variety.
Thank you for being part of our gardening community.
Curtis Jones, President, Botanical Interests, Inc.

Butterfly Flower (incarnata) Irresistible Blend Seed
Asclepias - incarnata
$1.99

Item #1243

Often called, Swamp Milkweed, this pretty blend of pink and white Asclepias incarnata flowers is perennial to USDA zone 3. The blooms have a soft vanilla scent and tempt butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial insects to the garden to feast on nectar. It is a host plant for butterflies. They lay their eggs on it, and it provides food for the caterpillars. It makes a wonderful cut flower, and its decorative green seedpods can be saved for dried arrangements. Unlike the common and drought-tolerant Butterfly Flower (Asclepias tuberosa), this tall, 3'-5' variety prefers moist soil, such as near a pond or stream, but the loosely clumped plants will grow in a garden with regular watering.

When to plant outside: Spring, after all danger of frost has passed and up to 8 weeks before the first fall frost.

When to start inside: 6-8 weeks before average last spring frost.