Great video Susan. Thank you for the OE update! 🐛🦋 The balloon milkweed I got from Joyful Butterfly finally took off and I have 4 seed pods, which I put the organza bags around. So I’ll just let them die back and not buy more.. As far as the giant milkweed…I have 3 large plants (one is over 8’ tall). Not sure what to do. I am not having much 0:09 ever had swamp milkweed bloom, only because no one was here to eat it. It sure is complicated! I had to laugh when you showed your chairs. Mine will look like that except from the oak tree above them. 😆🐿️
It is all so complicated, and nature is so interconnected, one little thing can have a domino effect on everything else. That’s why we just keep trying to learn more and change our gardening practices a bit here and there based on what we learn. That’s one of the beautiful things about gardening, there is always something new to learn and try. The balloon milkweed is just so hard, I do love that plant, but I really need to stick to the natives for my channel. 🩵🩵🩵🦋🦋🦋
Susan, love your video as always! I cried about your daughters going to graduation together and you surprising them with plants! So sweet! ❤ My daughter is 11 and wants nothing to do with my butterfly garden and that makes me so sad. Maybe one day. I meant to tell you (so I can’t believe you mentioned it here) I love your photos So Much!! I have loved them in your videos and just discovered them yesterday in the community page. I liked a whole bunch of them, but I truly love them all so I guess I need to go back through and mark them all, ha! You are a fabulous photographer as well as gardener. Just wow! I didn’t know about your FB page, so I just found it and followed you 😊 So many amazing photos!! In my garden, I counted a total of 7 monarch eggs today, omg, as I said I just released my first brood and I doubt I have enough milkweed for them (I use swamp) but if I don’t put them in my habitat as soon as they hatch something eats them! What eats eggs and newly hatched ones? They just disappear. It’s always so exciting helping the cats but also so nerve wracking because of the milkweed! I always think I have enough milkweed, and then they seem to know just how many eggs to leave you to deplete your supply. Haha!! I love every minute of your videos, thanks for making my day!! ❤ NC Carol
What a beautiful comment! You just never know what little inspirations are taking hold in your daughter as she sees your enthusiasm for your garden. One day she will probably surprise you. 🩵🩵🩵. The ONLY thing I photograph well are things in my garden😂😂. It’s all in the fabulous lighting of the Florida sunshine. 😉😉 There are so many predators that get the eggs and baby caterpillars. Ants eat the eggs, wasps take baby caterpillars and enclose them in their nests so their babies can eat them. Birds feed caterpillars to their babies. There is a whole host of predators like the jagged ambush bugs that will pick up baby caterpillars with their spike and carry them off. And, there are tiny wasps that will lay their eggs on caterpillar eggs. And then there are the lizards. That is just to name a few. But, you can’t and shouldn’t save them all, because it will overwhelm you and stress you out. Just bring in 5 or so. Let your garden do the rest. Some of them will make it in your garden. I know, it’s hard to believe. Just enjoy the experience of raising some. It’s a hard thing to do. It took me like 2 years of constantly buying milkweed, to just finally let my garden do its thing and just raise a few. Now I need to follow my advice for all of my Polydamas caterpillars. 😂😂😂
I have a nice stand of swamp milkweed. It is hard to find but it will readily self seed and it’s always teaming with butterflies, bees and everything else
Just wait til they become butterflies and come back and lay more eggs😉😉😉. I love hydroponics! I grow a few things on a small scale, but I want to do more and learn more. 🩵🦋🩵🦋
@@ButterflyGardeningwithSusan thanks so much!!! I wish I lived in FL. I’d be in my yard nonstop!!! So great we can watch your garden instead though!!! 😃👍🏼
I'm keeping my giant milkweed too. I mean it hasn't been studied so I don't see the need to make assumptions. Not sure we need to assume the worst? What if it's really helping? Mine grows like a tree so I know there is always food for the caterpillars. It also goes dormant in the winter. I might feel differently if my swamp milkweed came back every year. I buy 15-20 per year. This spring only one came back (or reseeded). I plant some, they immediately get eaten to sticks, and that's it. I'll keep doing it though, lol. I have a little tuberosa and perennis that came back. They are teeny tiny and just don't seem significant.
That sounds like a good plan, especially with your swamp milkweed being unreliable. If every swamp milkweed plant I bought was still alive, I think it would cover my yard end to end. 🩵🦋
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I love the stillness in the garden just before sunrise with a cup of coffee and the birds are singing and of course - butterflies
Yes, me too. So calm, and then watching the butterflies come out and warm their wings and visit flowers. It’s just all so magical. 🩵🦋🩵🦋
@@ButterflyGardeningwithSusan I agree. I think the butterflies help us too with calm and beauty and to ponder the mystery we still don’t understand
Great video Susan. Thank you for the OE update! 🐛🦋
The balloon milkweed I got from Joyful Butterfly finally took off and I have 4 seed pods, which I put the organza bags around. So I’ll just let them die back and not buy more.. As far as the giant milkweed…I have 3 large plants (one is over 8’ tall). Not sure what to do. I am not having much 0:09 ever had swamp milkweed bloom, only because no one was here to eat it.
It sure is complicated!
I had to laugh when you showed your chairs. Mine will look like that except from the oak tree above them. 😆🐿️
It is all so complicated, and nature is so interconnected, one little thing can have a domino effect on everything else. That’s why we just keep trying to learn more and change our gardening practices a bit here and there based on what we learn. That’s one of the beautiful things about gardening, there is always something new to learn and try.
The balloon milkweed is just so hard, I do love that plant, but I really need to stick to the natives for my channel. 🩵🩵🩵🦋🦋🦋
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Susan, love your video as always! I cried about your daughters going to graduation together and you surprising them with plants! So sweet! ❤ My daughter is 11 and wants nothing to do with my butterfly garden and that makes me so sad. Maybe one day. I meant to tell you (so I can’t believe you mentioned it here) I love your photos So Much!! I have loved them in your videos and just discovered them yesterday in the community page. I liked a whole bunch of them, but I truly love them all so I guess I need to go back through and mark them all, ha! You are a fabulous photographer as well as gardener. Just wow! I didn’t know about your FB page, so I just found it and followed you 😊 So many amazing photos!! In my garden, I counted a total of 7 monarch eggs today, omg, as I said I just released my first brood and I doubt I have enough milkweed for them (I use swamp) but if I don’t put them in my habitat as soon as they hatch something eats them! What eats eggs and newly hatched ones? They just disappear. It’s always so exciting helping the cats but also so nerve wracking because of the milkweed! I always think I have enough milkweed, and then they seem to know just how many eggs to leave you to deplete your supply. Haha!! I love every minute of your videos, thanks for making my day!! ❤ NC Carol
What a beautiful comment! You just never know what little inspirations are taking hold in your daughter as she sees your enthusiasm for your garden. One day she will probably surprise you. 🩵🩵🩵. The ONLY thing I photograph well are things in my garden😂😂. It’s all in the fabulous lighting of the Florida sunshine. 😉😉
There are so many predators that get the eggs and baby caterpillars. Ants eat the eggs, wasps take baby caterpillars and enclose them in their nests so their babies can eat them. Birds feed caterpillars to their babies. There is a whole host of predators like the jagged ambush bugs that will pick up baby caterpillars with their spike and carry them off. And, there are tiny wasps that will lay their eggs on caterpillar eggs. And then there are the lizards. That is just to name a few. But, you can’t and shouldn’t save them all, because it will overwhelm you and stress you out. Just bring in 5 or so. Let your garden do the rest. Some of them will make it in your garden. I know, it’s hard to believe. Just enjoy the experience of raising some. It’s a hard thing to do. It took me like 2 years of constantly buying milkweed, to just finally let my garden do its thing and just raise a few. Now I need to follow my advice for all of my Polydamas caterpillars. 😂😂😂
I have a nice stand of swamp milkweed. It is hard to find but it will readily self seed and it’s always teaming with butterflies, bees and everything else
That is fabulous!!!!!🩵🩵🩵🦋🦋🦋
This year I used my hydroponic garden cubes to grow Balloon milkweed just to feed my cats. At this point, the 🐛 have eaten just about all my milkweed.
That’s a great plan!!! Balloon milkweed grows pretty fast, I never tried growing it with hydroponics…good idea. 🩵🩵🩵
Just wait til they become butterflies and come back and lay more eggs😉😉😉. I love hydroponics! I grow a few things on a small scale, but I want to do more and learn more. 🩵🦋🩵🦋
My Eastern Blacks rarely use my golden alexander.
Same here, I mostly use cuttings of it to feed the late instar caterpillars. It’s a good back up. 😉🩵🦋🩵🦋
Hello Susan, I hope all is well.
Thank you, I hope all is well with you also. 🩵🦋
@Susanthebutterflygardener Thank you so much, and I'm doing well, love ❤️.
Yay🩵🦋🩵🦋
Hey Susan. Are you monetized on Facebook reels? So many platforms out there to choose from. 🦋🐛
Yes, and my Facebook page is in the bonus program.
@@ButterflyGardeningwithSusan that’s pretty amazing!!! I had only started exploring FB. I’d love to follow you there too. Gonna go search. 😃
This guy has some videos that explain Facebooks monetization programs.
youtube.com/@iamcoreymcclain?si=HTNu6Ix73LlD3_AW
@@ButterflyGardeningwithSusan thanks so much!!! I wish I lived in FL. I’d be in my yard nonstop!!! So great we can watch your garden instead though!!! 😃👍🏼
I'm keeping my giant milkweed too. I mean it hasn't been studied so I don't see the need to make assumptions. Not sure we need to assume the worst? What if it's really helping? Mine grows like a tree so I know there is always food for the caterpillars. It also goes dormant in the winter. I might feel differently if my swamp milkweed came back every year. I buy 15-20 per year. This spring only one came back (or reseeded). I plant some, they immediately get eaten to sticks, and that's it. I'll keep doing it though, lol. I have a little tuberosa and perennis that came back. They are teeny tiny and just don't seem significant.
That sounds like a good plan, especially with your swamp milkweed being unreliable. If every swamp milkweed plant I bought was still alive, I think it would cover my yard end to end. 🩵🦋
@@ButterflyGardeningwithSusan
It would be interesting for you to talk about how you grow Swamp Milkweed from seed. Not that I’ll ever do it - lol.
😂😂😂