Bailey from TN Nursery shows orange butterfly milkweed, a native plant that blooms up to three times yearly and attracts monarchs and other butterflies. It grows fast in full sun, produces six-inch orange flowers, and draws both adult butterflies and caterpillars.
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Hey guys, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and I was over in the field today looking at our butterfly milkweed, and I finally seen a monarch. There hasn't been many monarchs around this year, but they're starting to flow in since our milkweed is blooming. This is our orange, uh, let me see here, orange butterfly weed is what they're called. They thrive in full sun, and if you ever want to see all kinds of butterflies, you can see there's blue ones, there's monarchs, There's mountain butterflies, just all kinds of butterflies on these beautiful milkweed. And they're one of our best-selling plants. They grow really, really quickly and they bloom up to 3 times per year. They bloom in dead summer and fall, unlike any other kind of plants that we offer. They bloom late. They bloom late with coneflower, also blooms late, black-eyed Susans. Are Maximilian sunflowers. But if you really want to lure in all kinds of unique and rare butterflies, definitely go with the butterfly milkweed. And look, there went a big white butterfly, and that, uh, one's chasing it. Yeah, you can come over here and sit and just watch these milkweed, and you'll see the kind of butterflies and moths that you've never seen before. Landing on this milkweed. And, uh, there's caterpillars on it. I don't know if I get a image of a caterpillar, but there's just all kinds of beautiful butterfly and monarch caterpillars on these. Uh, they bloom a vibrant orange color, and some, when they get a little older— these are about 4 months old— when they get a little older, their blooms get about 6 inches wide, about 6 inches long. They're just stunning. And they are healthy, they're hardy, they're low maintenance, they're native. That's exactly what you need to be looking for if you're looking for native gardening is butterfly milkweed.
