Name: Showy Pink Milkweed
Brand: High Country Gardens
SKU: HC016095
Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)

Showy Pink milkweed is an essential wildflower for supporting Monarch butterflies by providing food for caterpillars and nectar for the adult butterflies. 

Showy Pink Milkweed, Asclepias speciosa | High Country Gardens

Showy Pink Milkweed

I'm starting a butterfly garden to attract and give them a place to eat and hopefully get lots of cocoons some day. Right now it's small but my snowy milkweed plants are growing quick.

Monarch butterfly garden initiated

I was surprised after a brutal winter that all 5 of the cuttings survived and came up in the spring!  They are doing well, even have more than one shoot!

It is planted in a flower bed.  Still growing but has not developed any blooms.

Slow to develop.

I actually learned from a Monarch expert that I do not need to wait until fall to plant the asclepias seeds.  I put them in jar with water and put the jar in the refrigerator for 8 days, thus giving them the 'winter' condition they need to sprout.

I love to see how the Monarchs truly need this plant.

One single plant came in a small pot this spring. I was a little concerned but it looked healthy overall. I planted it and watched it slowly die down....to my surprise it grew two shoots and is now happily growing tall and stronger than ever. I. Looking f

Doing well and growing strong

This is the second time I ordered plants and out of the four I ordered two died.  Last order the only plant that lived to bloom was the Bee Balm.

Plants died

I have purchased both the orange butterfly weed and the showy pink milkweed and both have done well.  Both were slow to grow the first year, but haven't disappointed even through a 2 yr drought and 3 late spring snows.  They are doing well at 7800' above 

Doing well

Arrived after a very long shipping delay, healthy and ready for planting. Even after dropping one of the containers on the floor and spilling the plant completely out of the soil, it transplanted well. One was moderately sized and one was very tiny (the o

Really Happy

I live in a heavy deer populated area and I love the Milk Weeds plants I have gotten from High Country.  I have to plant in containers on my deck because even "Deer Resistant" native plant can get eaten.  All of my Milk weed grows and comes back blooming 

Love your Plants

Everything I have ordered from High Country Gardens has been AMAZING!  The milkweed plants arrived about a month too soon - we can't plant tender plants until Mother's Day and I was unable to keep them healthy for a month indoors before getting them into 

Showy Pink Milkweed

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