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As I crisscross the county this summer to share environmental experiences with students, I can’t help but notice all of the ...
Save some milkweed pods to craft into beautiful dahlias, birds, butterflies, fairies and more. Just start experimenting with paint, hot glue, florist wire and other natural materials.
Milkweed Market started in December 2016 as its own small business within Opportunity Development Centers, then soon opened a physical space, selling products handcrafted by people of all abilities.
Milkweed pods in winter. (Sheryl DeVore/For the Lake County News-Sun) But, we can still experience winter’s natural art by taking a walk on a cold day to a field or woods or pond.
Lucas SWCD is asking community members to collect fully mature, dry milkweed pods from established plants on their property and drop them off now until Oct. 31 at the nearest pod collection station.
Milkweed seed pods are being collected by the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District through Oct. 31. Seeds will be planted to provide habitat for the monarch butterfly.
Drop your milkweed seed pods of by Oct. 31 in the green-and-yellow container outside Richland SWCD, 1495 W. Longview Ave., Suite 205 B, Mansfield. Here are a few tips on how to collect common ...
Because it is shorter, Whorled Milkweed makes a nice border plant. In late summer and early fall, the milkweed flowers die and give way to bumpy football-shaped green seed pods.
For the milkweed patches that were 5 years old or older, a whopping 95% contained eggs. That compared with 61% for patches planted in the current year.
These low-maintenance flowers are very attractive to butterflies as a nectar source, with red milkweed also being an important food source for the larval stage of Monarch butterflies, TDOT said.
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