Date: 01/15/2013

Number: 1

I have milkweed year round. I have five large plants that are in the ground with many leaves, not to many flowers. I also have 19 7' plants in five gallon pots that I move around. They only have very few leaves and no flowers but they are healthy green. I keep so many in pots so that I can take plants to schools, senior homes and community events to showcase the Monarch Butterfly and teach people about them. I also built a 8' x 7' x 8' high butterfly house in my back yard and I use the potted plants to feed the caterpillars in there and I change out the plants so that the caterpillars don't eat the whole plant and I find that makes the plants last much longer. I also have a balloon milkweed plant that is eight feet tall, three years old and I have never seen a Monarch anywhere near it so I am thinking it might not be a Monarch Milkweed. It has not flowered since I planted it but it does have 21 seed pods right now so maybe come spring it will flower and then I'll know for sure if it is a Monarch plant.

Rialto, CA

Latitude: 34.1 Longitude: -117.4

Observed by: Barbara
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