I love my milkweeds (along with my passionflowers, mallows and everyone else). In the backyard, I had two butterflyweeds (Asclepias tuberosa) that I thought were happy and well rooted. This past spring, however, one came back up, and the other didn't. I waited, and I waited, and I WAITED. No sign of the second butterflyweed. Meanwhile, the first butterflyweed BLOOMED.
Finally, I gave up May 3 and dug down in the ground to check on the uncooperative root. The photo above is what I brought back up. Rotted from overwatering, I thought. Dang it. I hate to lose any of my plants friends. Always pains me. So I wrote off the second butterflyweed....
And then....
Look what I spied May 28! My friend was ALIVE! I shared the photo above on my "Window on a Texas Wildscape" page on Facebook. I was SO ELATED! And now look at my butterfly friend below. It's happily blooming!
Moral of this story: Never Give Up.
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