Tammy SonsFounder/CEO, TN Nursery · CEO TN Nursery

Plant Butterfly Milkweed today #SaveTheMonarchs #PlantMilkweed #MonarchButterfly #NativePlants

5 Sept 2025 · 2 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Bailey from TN Nursery introduces two native plants—Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) and Milkweed (Asclepias spp.)—highlighting their strong appeal to monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Bailey explains that butterfly weed blooms from early June through fall, outlasting most garden plants, and emphasizes the plants' role in supporting local wildlife. The video also describes the product offering: customers receive the root systems of younger plants, which are typically raised in a greenhouse but this batch was grown in a sand‑bed system. Bailey encourages viewers to purchase these native plants to help pollinators, noting their high value for wildlife habitats.

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Hey guys, it's Bailey with TN Nursery. I wanted to show y'all the monarch that is— oh, there she goes! But they love our butterfly weed, they love our milkweed, but monarchs go crazy over butterfly weed and milkweed. Right here is our butterfly weed, and then here's another place of it. This has been dug out of, so it isn't full as this one, but butterflies go crazy over this. And then there's our younger milkweed beds. They love milkweed and they love butterfly weed. And butterfly weed bloom for so long. They bloom from, let's see, the beginning of— I'd say the beginning of June through till fall. If you have one in your garden, you'll notice it stays bloom a lot longer than any other plants you got. But say this is what you'll receive. Let's see, I don't have a little digger with me, but you'll receive this root to these plants. These are younger. We usually get them out of the greenhouse and they're a lot bigger, but we wanted to try to grow them in the in the sand bed this time, but you'll get this root. I don't have anything to dig it with and I don't want to ruin it, but if you want to support local wildlife and pollinators, these are really, really good for the pollinators and wildlife.