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Milkweed is essential to your garden for helping increase monarch populations, since the butterfly can’t complete its life cycle without it. Add nectar-producing plants and you’ll have a true monarch oasis.
Our horticulturists’ suggestions:
| 1 | • | Common milkweed | Asclepias syriaca | Native perennial in Québec Monarch host plant |
If you garden in pots, choose bloodflower (Asclepias curassavica), a tropical milkweed, instead. Treat this species the way you would an annual, or grow it as an indoor winter plant, after cutting it back.
| 2 | • | Spotted Joe Pye weed | Eutrochium maculatum | Native perennial in Québec |
| 3 | • | Canada goldenrod | Solidago canadensis | Native perennial in Québec |
| 4 | • | Meadow blazing-star | Liatris ligulistylis | Perennial, native in the Canadian Prairies |
| 5 | • | Butterfly bush | Buddleja davidii | Shrub, not very hardy in the Montréal region |
Apply mulch in the fall to protect the roots or grow this plant as an annual.
| 6 | • | Mexican sunflower | Tithonia rotundifolia |
Annual |
| 7 | • | Garden heliotrope | Heliotropium arborescens |
Tropical shrub |
Grow this common species as an annual.
| 8 | • | Common yarrow | Achillea millefolium | Native perennial |
| 9 | • | Lantana | Lantana camara |
Tropical shrub |
Grow this species as an annual or as a houseplant during winter.
| 10 | • | New England aster | Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | Native perennial in Québec |
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