Pollinator Container Garden Instructions: Butterfly Weed (asclepias-tuberosa)

Butterfly Weed (Perennial)& Bright Light Cosmos, Zinnias (Annual). 

Choose large plastic container. Place seeds in loose soil,press lightly, cover 1/8 inch, place in sunny location, keeping soil moist. Germination time for milkweed 21 -28 days. As milkweed plant matures pinch inner leaves to promote growth. The milkweed is a host plant for Monarch Butterflies whose offspring need to eat the leaves. Don't worry the leaves grow back quickly. and they spread out, getting bushy.

Butterfly Weed (asclepias-tuberosa) is a perennial that comes back yearly, and it needs to go under cold stratification by overwintering outside. If you want an annual garden use Tropical Milkweed.