Native Garden Chats: Milkweed, Monarchs, & You

Milkweeds are the food of choice for monarch butterflies, and the best milkweeds for them are native varieties. California is home to a variety of milkweeds, like showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa), narrow leaf milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis), and more! Find out how you can grow them to support monarchs at all stages of life!
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[@rowentree3999]

Awesome webinar. Big thank you to CNPS for posting all of these! I've learned so much!

[@patti5874]

Thank you Emma! I am a 6th grade teacher in San Gabriel and we are studying monarch survival behaviors. Your presentation is a perfect resource to make my lessons so much better!

[@Nini51963]

I live currently in central California as a child i lived in the Bay Area , I loved watching them , I decided to try and plant milkweed , what other native plants grow in central California that they would like . I have heard two different ideas on the non native milkweed , I already have two of those plants I hate to rip them up, in the spring I was planning on starting . seeds . I need to watch this again and take notes

[@halraines9]

Thanks for posting this info. My family LOVES monarch butterflies. We don't have milkweed, but they love the flowers we have.

[@BeautifulOaks]

Thank you for the great presentations and discussion about milkweeds and monarch butterflies.
Do you have any suggestions on how we keep the monarch caterpillars protected from the birds?
Thank you.

[@keiibo9006]

I use that tropical vs native and dessert vs veggies comparison all the time to inform people! I literally ran across an old lady buying tropical milkweed at my nursery and I told her that she should get the Narrowleaf (this nursery has native and nonnative milkweeds) and she told me they liked it so it was fine! BIG NO! I