Someone touring our garden once asked, “What is that beautiful plant that almost looks like milkweed?”
Surprise, surprise – it actually is milkweed! A number of diverse species depend on it for food and shelter, including Monarch butterflies.
A large swath of it likes to grow on a part of our upper slope, where all the Japanese knotweed used to be, so we generally leave it be. Asclepias syriaca also has a lovely scent.
