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Putting Your Garden To Bed This Autumn

Monarchs are in northern Mexico. Right on schedule for Day of the Dead.

Not all tropical milkweed are created equal.

Why native milkweed won't thrive in a subdivision

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A Dose of Milkweed with Danny Sanchez
Danny began gardening at an early age.
Danny's passion for gardening has only grown over the years.

Guest: Danny Sanchez
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Two tour guides at a monarch reserve in Mexico have been found dead. LA Times reports; a bloody war is brewing over "Blood Avocados". Xerces Society has released the count for Western Monarchs; and they are bad. 29,418 monarchs counted. Below the threshold considered sustainable. Will the monarch migration in the West collapse? Dr. Chip Taylor from Monarch Watch weighs in on western monarchs and the impact climate may have on the population.
Host: Brad Grimm

Top 5 places to look at Calotropis plants in Kauai: 
#5 Kauai Seascapes Nursery Inc
#4 Private Residence (near public road)
#3 Kapa’a First Hawaiian Church.
#2 Puakea Golf Course Park
#1 Kekaha Beach Park

Hawai’i has two native butterflies.
1 Udara blackburni Koa butterfly, Hawaiian Blue or Blackburn’s Butterfly.
2 Vanessa tameamea Kamehameha butterfly and the Hawaiian name of pulelehua.

MILKWEED HIT LIST
✔️ Asclepias asperula https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62298

✔️ Asclepias nyctaginifolia
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62294

✔️ Asclepias tuberosa
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47912

✔️ Asclepias linaria
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62295

✔️ Asclepias hypoleuca
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/158742

✔️ Asclepias nummularia https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/158751

Nestor R and Brad G wander the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in search of the rare Welsh's milkweed.

Plant page: growmilkweedplants.com/welshii

Observation: inaturalist.org/observations/30008278

Google's top six results for Asclepias welshii

Wikipedia
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
USDA Plant Guide (.PDF)
USDA Plants Profile
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A. welshii (.PDF)
Grow Milkweed Plants - Asclepias welshii
Host Brad Grimm

Unspoken guest: Nestor Robles