Milkweed for Monarchs

Coconino Master Gardeners:

The AZ Milkweeds for Monarchs team is reaching out again to enlist in the help and skill of MGs across Arizona to grow native milkweed seedlings in a grassroots effort to conserve the monarch butterfly. For the third year, we are giving dedicated gardeners the opportunity to partake in a citizen-science conservation initiative in which gardeners will receive 8-10 native milkweed seedlings to plant in their common garden and record and submit data on the growth and vitality of various species of milkweeds.

If you are interested in being involved, please read, fill out, and submit the application and return the application by email to Rich.Hofstetter@nau.edu by March 25th.
Link to general info

Milkweed Project Application

Hattie Braun

County Director
Assistant in Extension
Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Coconino Cooperative Extension
University of Arizona
2304 N. 3rd St.
Flagstaff, AZ  86004

Phone: (928)773-6118
Fax: (928)774-1860
hbraun@cals.arizona.edu

Arizona Milkweeds for Monarchs project

This just came in for the Arizona Milkweeds for Monarchs project. They are looking for volunteers again this year. Hattie

Dear Coconino Master Gardeners:

Hello fellow gardeners! Spring is here and our greenhouse is overflowing with milkweeds. As many of you know, a small all-volunteer group formed the AZ Milkweeds for Monarchs project. Please check out our web site: www.azmilkweedsformonarchs.org.

For the second year, we are looking for some volunteers to test the suitability of growing 6-10 species of milkweeds at various locations in central and northern Arizona. We provide milkweed plants free of charge for gardeners willing to grow milkweeds and collect data on their performance twice during the 2017 growing season. Go to our website for details and complete the application process. We expect to have plants at the appropriate planting time depending on your location.

Cheers! Emelia, Emily, Rich and Mike

AZ Milkweeds for Monarchs

Hattie Braun

County Director/Horticulture, Coconino County

University of Arizona Cooperative Extension

2304 N. 3rd St.

Flagstaff, AZ  86004

Phone: 928-774-1868 x 170

FAX: 928-774-1860

Terroir Seeds - Butterfly Milkweed and other info

Trouble reading this email? View the online version! Butterfly Milkweed, Brussels Sprouts & Gardening for Birds Butterfly Milkweed We have another species of milkweed to help the Monarch butterflies! The Butterfly milkweed is very attractive and a hit in both the garden and as a landscape showcase, where it shows off the vibrant deep yellow to orange flowers dripping with butterflies in the late spring to early summer. Add this to your pollinator garden to draw in many different butterflies, bees and beneficial insects. It’s best to plant a variety of milkweed and pollinator attracting flowers that provide food for a diverse ecology of pollinators. You will not only be helping them, but they will visit your garden and the key to great production is excellent pollination, thus growing flowers in or around your garden will reap abundant harvests. Plant now for early spring germination!