Date: 04/07/2003

Number: 1

I grow milkweed in my yard. We had a pretty bad winter (for
northern Florida) - and things really didn't warm up until a couple of weeks ago. Last year's milkweed (which I cut back to the ground every year because the old stalks are dead) and this year's volunteers are growing -but they're only a few inches high - and a long way from flowering (at least a month in my opinion).

I'll note that just about every store here - from Target to Ace Hardware to Home Depot sells milkweed now - and that the plant material they sell is in flower. So people who are putting in new milkweed now have flowering milkweed. I also planted my summer annuals a few weeks ago - including pentas - and I'm starting to see an occasional butterfly hovering around
them.

Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Latitude: 30.2 Longitude: -81.4

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