Tammy SonsFounder/CEO, TN Nursery · CEO TN Nursery

Growing Butterfly Milkweed to Attract Monarchs to Your Yard #butterflymilkweed #nativeplants #garden

30 Jul 2025 · 2 min

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In this informal, instructional video, Bailey from Tammy Sons Nursery showcases their best‑selling butterfly milkweed sold as bare‑root plants. He walks viewers through the appearance of the plant’s roots, emphasizing that the nursery avoids herbicides. Bailey demonstrates the contrast between a blooming specimen and the bare‑root product customers will receive. He explains that the plants can be planted in fall, summer, or spring and will produce blooms the following spring (2026 if planted now). The video highlights the plant’s attractive flowers, its role in drawing monarch butterflies, and positions the product as a high‑quality, eco‑friendly garden addition.

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Hey guys, it's Bailey with Tammy Sons Nursery. I wanted to show y'all some of our butterfly milkweed. Forgive all the weeds, we try not to use any herbicides or nothing like that. But look, there's a butterfly milkweed. Get them clovers out there. Here's a butterfly milkweed. This is one of our best-selling plants. And let me see if I can't find the base of one of these that ain't blooming, because I just hate to rip up the root of that one that's blooming. Here's one that's blooming right here, but I want to show y'all what y'all will get, because we are a bare root plant nursery, and I want to show y'all what the roots looks like. That is a little deep. Let me see here. Oh my goodness. Oh, now here's exactly what you'll get. Now you say this is a beautiful blooming butterfly milkweed. And this is what we sell. We sell— let me step on this, I ain't got but one hand to use here. This right here, that's a Butterfly Milkweed. This is exactly what you'll get, and you'll put it in the ground in fall, in summer, in spring, whenever, and it will bloom next spring. See, if I plant it right now, I'll see blooms this coming spring 2026. But see, that's, that's what we sell is the bare roots. But you seen the top, here's the top right here. It's a big beautiful plant, gorgeous gorgeous flowers, attracts, uh, monarch butterflies. And that's what you get right here.