Post by @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

2026-09-08 03:13 UTC

This is one of my first season milkweeds. I foraged the seeds from a nearby plant and got them going indoors and everything. This one in particular got eaten to the ground twice. Both times, it came back as twice as many plants. One thing I've been learning this year through gardening is that plants are incredible. They have their limits (our sunflowers didn't recover from being repeatedly chomped), but some of them really spring back. #milkweed #nativePlants #gardening

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@kdwarn@social.coop 2026-09-08 03:55

@stellarsarah@mastodon.world you may already know this, but the plant just below it looks like spotted spurge - one of my favorites!

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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 2026-09-08 03:15

@stellarsarah@mastodon.world My entire back yard has milkweed (native, self seeded). I remove the grass... hundreds of plants. Anytime the yard gets colonized by caterpillars, they get eaten to the ground COMPLETELY. It seems like they are evolved to deal with this, they come back fine the next year all the time.

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@Snuggle2476@mas.to 2026-09-09 03:08

@stellarsarah@mastodon.world I love my milkweed plants, and I am growing to learn the power of native plants and how resilient they are in their zones. Did you have to stratify the milkweed seeds? Any important details about how you started them indoors? My plants are releasing seeds now and I'm considering collecting some and starting them to plant in the spring.

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