How to grow Asclepias

Asclepias

How long does Asclepias take to grow?

These estimates for how long Asclepias takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.

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Asclepias Folklore & Trivia

Milkweeds are beneficial in the garden as they help other plants by repelling some pests such as wire worms.1

During WWII the silky part attached to the seeds was used for life jackets.234 Milkweed is more bouyant then cork by 5 or 6 fold.234

Other names for Asclepias

milkweed

Asclepias L.

Footnotes

1 Wikipedia

2 Native Plant Society of Texas

3 Washington Post

4 “Your Country’s Armed Services Need Milkweed Floss: How You Can Help” :https://archive.org/stream/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp/YourCountrysArmedServicesNeedMilkweedFlossHowYouCanHelp_djvu.txt

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