Tropical Butterfly Weed Seeds
Tropical Butterfly Weed Seeds
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Grow Zone
9 - 11
Mature Height
36
Mature Width
24
Sun / Shade
Full Sun
Bloom Size
need bloom size meta
Tomato Fruit Set
Days To Maturity
Fruit Weight
Soil Tolerance
Normal, loamy, Clay, Poor, and Sandy
Moisture
Dry and Moist, well-drained
Description / Tropical Butterfly Weed Seeds
If you think the native orange-flowered butterfly weed is lovely, just wait until you grow these tricolored blooms from its South American cousin. Tropical Butterfly Weed offers a very long season of bloom, irresistible attraction for pollinators from hummingbirds to butterflies to bees, and large flowers just right for garden, container, and even home.
Tropical Butterfly Weed (Asclepias curassavica) is a tender perennial that will thrive for several years as a houseplant or for one glorious year as an annual outdoors. (It will re-seed itself in zones 9-11.) It is shrubbier than the native butterfly weed, reaching 2 to 3 feet high and up to 2 feet wide with excellent branching and masses of flowers. The blooms are followed by quite handsome seedpods, about 3 to 4 inches long and very slendergreat for fresh or dried bouquets.
As you might expect from a plant whose common name includes the word "weed," it's very easy to grow. Give it full sunshine to light shadebright light indoorsand any well-drained soil and Tropical Butterfly Weed will reward you with its brilliant blooms from early summer until well into fall. The sap of this plant is poisonous, so deer and rabbits leave it alone. And pollinators just can't stay away.
Tropical Butterfly Weed is ideal for containers of all kinds, indoors and out. If growing it outdoors, cut the plant back before the first hard frost and bring it inside for winterit will flourish. And it's a fine presence in the vegetable garden, bringing pollinators on the wing and keeping nibbling animals at bay. You just can't go wrong with this tropical beauty.
For the longest season of bloom, start the seeds indoors about 8 to 10 weeks before the last spring frost. Transplant when all danger of frost has passed. Keep the plant well watered when youngit becomes quite drought tolerant as it reaches maturity in early summer. Then sit back and enjoy the parade of blooms and seedpods.
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Bloom Color: Orange, Multi-Color, Light Red, Yellow
Foliage Color: Dark Green
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Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Dry, Moist, well-drained
Soil Type: Normal, loamy, Clay, Poor, Sandy
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Uses: Special Features: Hardiness Zones: 9 - 11