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Ari "Two Elements" Jackson on Nostr: FIRST #MONARCH (that I have seen) IN MY YARD! Woooo! 🥳 I learned in a class the ...

FIRST #MONARCH (that I have seen) IN MY YARD!

Woooo! 🥳

I learned in a class the other day that particularly for common milkweed, it's important to plant it toward the edges of your property, because monarchs use *visual* cues to find it. So they really need to see the entire plant, not obscured by any other plants.

I let asclepias syriaca grow at-will in my front yard for this reason. Some of my #Asclepias gets to be between 10 and 13 feet tall!!!

This year, it's not blooming as robustly as I would expect, though. I'm not sure what's going on.

I have another monarch class coming up on the 19th -- with Chip Taylor his own self -- so I'm excited about that.

#butterflies #pollinators #PollinatorGarden