Monarchs love gardeners with milkweed

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Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) 

Monarch butterflies were the topic for my 21st annual talk for the Tellico Village Garden Club last Thursday. 

Yep. Twenty-one talks over the years about birds, frogs and this time, the orange-and-black butterfly that so loves a good gardener who plants milkweed. Although monarchs will feed on many different kinds of flowers, the females prefer common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) or swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) to lay their eggs.

And thank you,Tim Pyles for working out the arrangements. 

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