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I live in the Brighton Heights Neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh PA and recently certified my yard as a wildlife habitat. please feel free to check out my Blog and I hope you enjoy it.When I first bought my property the house was in disrepair and the yard was nothing but dead grass over grown weeds and garbage. It is now a habitat that provides wildlife with the four basic requirements needed to thrive. These are food, clean water, cover from predators, and places to raise young. I have provided these in my small space and will continue to improve on these elements of my garden. I am also an artist and I get a lot of inspiration from my garden. I am fascinated with tiny houses and enjoy cooking and music. I have two adopted cats from a rescue, and I have a one eyed cat that was a stray and needed surgery so I took her in. They are all house cats so they do not tear up my wildlife habitat. They do enjoy sitting in the windows looking at the other animals that visit my yard.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Milkweed

My milkweed is always slow starting out, but I am always happy to see it.

I have a few native varieties growing in my habitat area. I have Common Milkweed Asclepias Syriaca, Swamp Milkweed Asclepias Incarnata, and several colors of  Butterfly Weed Asclepias Tuberosa. I would like to get some of every milkweed native to Pennsylvania.

Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa
Clasping milkweed, Asclepias amplexicaulis
Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
Fourleaf milkweed, Asclepias virdifolia
Green comet milkweed, Asclepias viridiflora
Poke milkweed, Asclepias exaltata
Purple milkweed, Asclepias purpurascens
Red milkweed, Asclepias rubra
Redring milkweed, Asclepias variegata
Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
Whorled milkweed, Asclepias verticillata


Blog about 12 Native Milkweeds for Monarchs by National Wildlife Federation.
http://blog.nwf.org/2015/02/twelve-native-milkweeds-for-monarchs/
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