Date: 04/29/2004

Number: 1

On thursday morning in my garden in South Western PA (just north of
Pittsburgh) the Incarnata pulchra had very tiny sprouts starting to
show and none of the common milkweed in my yard was up yet. I have
noticed that the common milkweed in the yard comes up later each year. 4
and 5 years ago I saw the first sprouts in the first week of
April...since then it has been late April and into May. I planted it in
1993..I think the patch at this point consists primarily of two clones.
My guess is that the roots are getting deeper each year and that may
be responsible for the later emergence.

I planted seeds for common milkweed, local swamp milkweed (these two
harvested from the wild mid winter), butterfly weed and tropical
milkweed two weeks ago. Nothing was up yet when left on Thursday..

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Pittsburgh, PA

Latitude: 40.5 Longitude: -80

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