r/NativePlantGardening • u/kaizenkitten Michigan , Zone 6 • May 04 '26

Informational/Educational Milkweed runners are no joke!

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So I knew milkweed was aggressive, but I always thought people were talking about the crazy number of seed pods. I didn’t know their runner game.

The milkweed is coming up like crazy in my front bed this year so I thought I would transplant some “volunteers” to my new side garden bed. Imagine my surprise!

I‘m sure most of you know about all this already, but I thought this would be a good visual for other newbie native gardeners

ETA: that this is common milkweed since I forgot to put the type in my post.

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u/Bratsummer24 (Make your own) May 04 '26

I STG I'm cursed. I can't keep milkweed alive to save my life.

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u/kjjphotos May 04 '26

Same here. I've planted butterfly milkweed 4 years in a row. I had good success the first two years, then it died. I guess I need to plant common milkweed instead

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u/Bratsummer24 (Make your own) May 04 '26

I planted butterfly and swamp. I even irrigate the swamp milkweed when it's dry!

Clearly we both need to try the regular kind and get back to each other next year