45 episodes
Grow Milkweed Plants Brad Grimm
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In support of growing milkweed plants I am sharing the value that native milkweed has for monarch butterflies. Your host, Brad Grimm, created a website dedicated to education about milkweed. Visit
http://www.GrowMilkweedPlants.com
Get started taking action to find and grow milkweed. I'll warn you in advance, you may fall in love with this plant.
The podcast dedicated to all things milkweed related. Topics include Asclepias, Monarch butterflies, milkweed, gardening and pollinators.
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GMP 44: Giant Milkweed and Hawaiian Monarchs of Kauai Hawaii
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. -
GMP 43: Tucson Area Milkweed
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 -
GMP 42: Asclepias welshii aka Welsh's milkweed at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes
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 -
GMP 41: Florida milkweed rundown and some fun over asclepias in Nevada
What you will hear in this episode.
Asclepias cryptoceras grows in a remote location on a shale slope in the Great Basin east of Reno NV. Three experts and me have an unplanned meeting in the mountains and talk milkweed over a rare milkweed.
Cocoa Beach Florida has sun and fun but I take a time-out under an umbrella to talk about the diverse number of locally native milkweeds in central Florida.
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GMP 40: Oh snap! Las Vegas has a lot of milkweed.
Las Vegas milkweed test garden is ground zero for the start of the western migration. Monarch population status update.
Monarch Population Status. The Xerces Society Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count 1997-2018. The Western Monarch Thanksgiving & New Year’s Counts. Second New Year’s Count Supports Monarchs Movement Between Sites. This master gardener is luring monarchs to Las Vegas
Host: Brad Grimm
Guests: Anne Marie Lardeau, Glenda Bona, Nestor Robles, David Dewenter
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GMP 39: Milkweed butterflies of the Rio Grande Valley
Jet down to Oleander Acres to see if milkweed really is bigger in Texas.
Customer Reviews
Great Info on Monarch Butterflies
I purchased some Milkweed seeds from Brad's website and found his podcast there. I love the information that Brad delivers in these podcasts and would recommend this podcast to anyone who wants to help out the Monarch Butterfly. I have planted 3 different types of Milkweed in my backyard this year thanks to Brads dedication to helping save the Monarch. I always have lots of flowers in my backyard that atttracts butterfiles and pollenators, however I didn't realize that Monarch only lay their eggs on Milkweed plants.
Thanks Brad for giving us the information needed to help the Monarch survive!
Great info!
Thanks for the podcast. It’s good to collect information about our beloved monarchs, and I enjoy your upbeat tone.
Powerful Podcast
Learning so much about monarch butterflies and milkweed plants.
