#milkweed

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Details mean hours of hand cramping painting with a tiny brush, but to they really pull the story together. Details are often my favorite part of the journey.
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I’m working on cold stratifying my #milkweed. I will have seeds for the workshop in March and started plants for the workshop in May! Milkweed is the host plant for monarch caterpillars and provides food for many pollinators. I have butterfly, common, and rose milkweed.

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Climbing milkweed (Funastrum cynanchoides) - a wonderful native to the Sonoran & Mojave Deserts.
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Whorled Milkweed, Asclepias verticillata near the Kansas/Oklahoma border near Wichita, Kansas.

August 6. Summer sun on my skin like liquid gold, scent of honeysuckle heavy in the air, and a new friend in this little tussock moth (Euchaetes) chomping on a milkvine (Cynanchum laeve).

#summer #botany #entomology #insect #caterpillar #climbingmilkweed #milkweed #newfriend

Cynanchum marnierianum is a strange member of the milkweed family originating in Madagascar. The plant consists entirely of leafless stems, usually more brown than green and largely looking dead. Even in growth it is hard to tell it is healthy. While it’s great fun to have pots of dead sticks, the actual flowering of this is more of a treat as the small blooms are unique green cage-like structures. I received my Cynanchum as roughly 6" cuttings, and after a few years and 2-3 feet of growth I finally had a flowering.

The waning of the Milkweed blooms. I’m savoring the last of these fragrant beauties.
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#milkweed
#asclepias
#monarchbutterfly
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#catepillar
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#pollinators
#wildflowers
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A quick little monarch butterfly study for Western Monarch Day.

If you have garden space, or even a patio with some containers, you can grow milkweed! Go visit the Xerces Society’s milkweed finder - lots of small local organizations give the seeds out for free.

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Snowflakes fall from the sky
and melt on my cheeks like soft kisses
Around me the ground becomes covered in a fluffy white blanket -
such a soft place for my dreams to land.
❄️ How’s your winter going so far?

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‘Monarch Puppies’, a harvestmouse wrangling some caterpillars (in a hat). Maybe they use the adults to send messages long-distance when the birds can’t be trusted?

 Mixed media (mostly colored pencil and watercolor) on hotpress watercolor paper, 5x7"

a monarch butterfly catterpillar on a milkweed plant

Asclepias cordifolia, heart-leaf milkweed

Hoya carnosa, the wax plant