August 3, 2007

• Butterfly Weed -- Repeat Performance

  

  
  If you have ever wondered of Butterfly Weed will rebloom if you cut off
  the spent blooms before it produces seed pods -- the answer is a
  resounding 
  YES. I'm so glad. I love the cheerful orange flowers, and
  so this year after it was finished blooming and just beginning to go
  into seed production, I trimmed off all the flower heads as an
  experiment. And so now, at the beginning of August, I have new sets of
  flower clusters on my Butterfly Weeds. I'll let them go to seed this
  time around, and will watch while the tiny seed pods develop into large
  Milkweed pods that scatter their seeds to the wind on white feathers. (The Milkweed picture is from last year) I
  did not know until a couple years ago that the Milkweed that delighted
  me as a child is the Butterfly Weed I've admired as an adult.
  

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