Aarrgh!!! I am SO excited!!!! This is my 3rd year with this butterfly garden and as we have seen a few butterflies flying around- like 3 in the last 3 years- I have a visitor!!!!
I posted a couple days ago about my milkweed, I have not had good luck with it growing, I have tried for 6+ years!
I am so excited!!!
I planted a butterfly garden a couple years ago and the plants established and looked really good. Last year I threw in some common milkweed seeds in the bare middle, and never gave it another thought.
This picture is a couple weeks old and the milkweed is already 4-6 inched taller and starting to bloom (and wow! Does it smell good!).
However, I am worried about my other plants that they might get choked out. My goal is to fill in this flowerbed, but I don't know if I should try to thin out the area?
Should I leave it as is, or would you put milkweed in one flower bed and my other plants in another? (Keeping them close to each other, but separating them so they don't get choked out).
In this one flower bed I have
Cone flowers (white and wild berry)
Blazing stars
Dahlia
Meadow sage
Galliradia
Butterfly milkweed
Common milkweed
Bee balm
Am I over thinking this and all will be fine?