Grow Milkweed Plants

About Grow Milkweed Plants

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.

Publisher

Grow Milkweed Plants Network

Category

leisure · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jan 2015

Latest episode

9 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

59 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jun 2025

   GMP 58: Milkweed Season Garden Kickoff 2025

   This episode discusses the start of the 2025 milkweed season.

2. 

   4 Jul 2024

   GMP 57: Summer of Milkweeds

   July 4th, 2024 In this episode we Recap Pollinator Week June 17th-23rd Order Milkweed Across the USA!: POM POM Paradise! Your purchase supports the show and you can enjoy the milkweed from Spring thru Winter between the pages of the book. Shoutout to listener Mindy Frohlich and the staff at Millcreek Gardens (https://millcreekgardens.com)! Member Questions from Grow Milkweed Plants Facebook Group 1. Does regular care/water inhibit milkweed flowering? I’ve nursed one for three years now, (left pic) and it’s never flowered even though I can find some much smaller flowering in the wild. Am I inadvertently fooling my plant somehow to not produce flowers? TIA. near Dallas. I’m assuming green milkweed.. 2. So sad, this morning I was excited to check with the caterpillar and the ladybug that's on my milkweed but they're gone..did some insects came to devour them..all I have left is the poop... Milkweed Science Minute: links to facebook Pollinium Germination and Putative Ovule Penetration in Self- and Cross-pollinated Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca Author(s): Adam P. Kahn and Douglass H. Morse Source: The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 126, No. 1 (Jul., 1991), pp. 61-67 Have a very monarch summer! If it's good for the butterflies. It's good for me. Host: Brad Grimm

3. 

   19 Feb 2024

   GMP 56: Bobby Gendron presents Asclepias

   Recorded January 2023. Boby Gendron presents Asclepias from across the western United States.

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YouTube views

156,542

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

43

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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