Date: 04/09/2011

Number: 1

Monarch Waystation #271 in Newport News, Virginia reports the first milkweed leaves have broken ground!
My home garden's Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, has overwintered in one of the pots on the south patio and on this date was first noticed with a shoot about 1 inch tall.
Other milkweeds [A. syrica, A. tuberosa, A. purpurascens] planted in both south & north beds have not broken ground quite yet. While I was planting some annuals I saw shoots staging themselves just below the surface inthe north bed. These shoots should be up in time for our local first monarch sightings, usually the last week of April.
Keeping eyes peeled!

Newport News, VA

Latitude: 37.1 Longitude: -76.5

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