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Butterfly Plants - TN Nursery

31 Aug 2023 · 2 min

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In this short on‑site video, Bailey from TN Nursery walks viewers through a planting of butterfly weed (orange milkweed), explaining that monarch butterfly populations have dropped by more than 80 % since the 1990s. Bailey notes that monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed species, and that butterfly weed is a cultivated variety of milkweed that readily attracts monarchs and other butterflies. By showing several monarchs on the newly planted weed, Bailey argues that planting butterfly weed is a simple, effective way for garden enthusiasts to help restore monarch numbers, urging viewers to purchase and install orange milkweed in their own gardens.

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It's Bailey with TN Nursery. I come over here to check out the butterfly weed and look at the monarchs. Look, there's some, there's some. Look at them. Look at this one. Here's another one. The monarch population has declined over 80% since the '90s, and they love to lay their eggs. This is butterfly weed. It's the closest thing to milkweed that you can buy. It is considered a milkweed. It is orange milkweed. They lay their eggs on this. And they lay it on milkweed. And this is the butterfly weed, and they adore it. And if you want to help save the population of monarchs, that, that's your way to do it. Clearly, I've never seen monarchs up here until we planted these, and they, they have really, really took off. And see, other butterflies love them too. But there's just monarchs. Look at this. Well, y'all, I don't know if I— y'all can see them or not, but if you're a butterfly lover, you need to invest in some of this orange milkweed, which is called butterfly weed, and you should invest in some milkweed to save the population as well. Look, it's a beautiful plant and it's so beneficial.