I have common milkweed and butterfly weed. The common milkweed attracts TONS of butterflies and bumblebees but especially the beautiful monarch. I grow it at my mom's garden by Midway and it grows over 6 feet tall and spreads EVERYWHERE including the lawn. It's a lot of work to keep it in control but her home is the only one that has so many beneficial and native insects. It smells absolutely amazing almost like peonies. You can smell it before you arrive to the house. The butterfly weed grows beautifully and controlled. It still attracts a ton of butterflies but nothing beats the common milkweed. I live in Lakeview and many buildings are growing amsonia and it’s pretty! One is done blooming it looks like a fern with its thin leaves. It flows beautifully in the wind. I'm going to try the other milkweeds this summer. I'm so happy you are finally using your power of gardening for good. 🌼
@awildapproach
Ай бұрын
Yay for native plants!
@aiai-j7i
11 ай бұрын
Oh thank you so much for the website suggestion!
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
I was so happy when I found out about it! It’s the most well organized seed site I’ve ever seen 😆
@schoolbeginsaftercoffee4759
11 ай бұрын
This year, at our local farmer's market, they gave away free native plants! They were nice, big plugs of milkweed, cardinal flowers, etc..It was great timing as I switch to mostly natives in our side yard. Also,my daughter's school hosts a native plant sale every spring and fall. The school gets a portion of the profits.They have plants, shrubs, and even trees. It's my favorite fundraiser of the year.
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
I love that! I’m definitely seeing more of a push for natives in the last few years which is exciting.
@moduqueRN
6 ай бұрын
Great website, thanks! 😊
@ChicagoGardener
6 ай бұрын
I’m glad you like it!
@Toya-Doing-Stuff
11 ай бұрын
Im in a suburb outside of Chicago not sure if Cook County has one but look up Nature Foundation of Will County. They only sale native plants starts for $3 or $4 several times throughout the year check them out, prob about an hour drive for you- well worth it!
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
That’s definitely a price I’ll drive an hour for!!
@lauraprice3399
11 ай бұрын
Fabulous! This was my first year growing native plants from seed, and so far, mostly everything is doing great. I ordered from an org called Wild Seed Project out of Maine so their offerings are native to New England (Im in MA). It's been super fun/rewarding. Anyway, looking forward to seeing your future videos. Thanks for all the hard work you put into them 😀
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
Have you grown any in containers? I’m wondering what the best pot sizes will be for some of these.
@LindaLolaa
11 ай бұрын
yay native! its fun to see what you got and how different they are from the seeds I got. I ordered: Blue Vervain, Blazing Star, Wild Bergamot, Pale Purple Coneflower & Rose Milkweed - I was definitely going for purple/pink without realizing it. I am going to order aster seeds from prairie moon soon cause they literally have all the aster varieties and I can't find them anywhere else. I think Smooth Blue Aster is so pretty!
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
I love the selection you got! Blazing star is one of my favorites.
@LindaLolaa
11 ай бұрын
@@ChicagoGardener can’t wait to see how your plants grow next year!
@itsmewende
11 ай бұрын
I used Prairie Moon for milkweed, this was it's 3rd yr in the garden and it was beautiful, bonus, I found 2 eggs on it.
@ChicagoGardener
11 ай бұрын
That’s so exciting!! How long did it take to flower for you?
@itsmewende
11 ай бұрын
@@ChicagoGardener I bought plants. Even tho I didn’t get them in the ground, then thought they didn’t survive, one came back in it’s container, that was last spring. It came back huge…tall this spring, but I don’t think it bloomed for that long, I’m sure not months. It was done, seeds fell too before the monarch came. It bounced from top to top and flew off, didn’t even stop for nectar from other blooms 🤷♀️ It was exciting finding the eggs, after reading the caterpillar finds a safer place for their chrysalis, no way I would’ve been able to find that. I’m going to buy a butterfly hatching kit, thinking my daughters class would enjoy watching that, I know I would like to see it in person.
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