Growing Milkweed: How to Plant and Raise This Invaluable “Weed”

Common milkweed arguably isn’t the prettiest plant. It’s tall and gangly, with modest blooms and huge seed pods that dominate the plant in early autumn. Most people aren’t growing milkweed for its ornamental value. That’s okay, it’s absolutely indispensable in the garden, anyway. Milkweed is a humble plant whose role in the ecosystem is absolutely...