🌿🌻 Milkweed COMPANION Plants❓

Try Pairing these pollinator plants with milkweed for monarchs and more...

May 03, 2025

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Welcome Back Good GROWer,

the spring rains continue to bless our garden with green goodness, and plants are starting to pop up all over the yarden including: tulips, hyssop, and monarch magnet liatris ligulistylis ⬅️ (photos, info, and where to find)

Some of our favorite visitors are also back for the season: resident leopard frog, tiger swallowtails, wood ducks, and some yellow-rumped warblers migrating through.

As planting season approaches next week, we find ourselves faced with an age old Shakespearean query that (surprisingly) applies to your milkweed. Scroll down for more details…

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🌿 Milkweed COMPANION Planting 🤔


To be or not to be (together), that is the question. Milkweed is the only game in town for hungry monarch butterfly caterpillars. It’s suggested that milkweed be planted in patches of 3 to 6 plants, so that caterpillars won’t run out of their incredible shrinking food source.

However, that doesn’t mean these milkweed patches need to be desert islands within your garden.

Over the years, we’ve tried planting nectar flowers close to our milkweed for supporting pollinators, and for enhanced visual appeal.

This year, we’ve also added one to the list at the bottom of the linked article that will also repel sap-sucking vampires (aphids) from sucking the life out of your milkweed 🌿🧛

Companion Plant Ideas for MILKWEED ⬅️ (#9 repels aphids!)

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for GARDENERS❓🤔

Mother’s day is fast approaching and here are two garden gift ideas to make her heart flutter with joy:

Garden Resources


Coming Up Next?

Two final milkweed options to close out the 2025 edition of Milkweed Madness 🪴🪴

May the 4th be with you,

Tony your Butterfly Guide 🦋