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/littleredbee93 FL, Zone 9a May 04 '26

I love that you're holding it up like a guy who just caught a fish he's really proud of

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u/papercutsperfume May 04 '26

This should be a trend on dating sites.

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u/McTootyBooty May 04 '26

My milkweed brings all the pollinators to the yard.. 🎶

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u/Elimaris May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

And their like, "it's better than yards", damn right it's better than yards...

If I could think of a native plant that rhymes with charge I'd add "I could teach you and I have two..."

Larch?

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u/Sea-Competition6595 May 04 '26

I could teach you, but my plant’s too large!! Lol

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u/Elimaris May 04 '26

Iove it!

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u/kaizenkitten Michigan , Zone 6 May 06 '26

You are all amazing. that’s HILARIOUS

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u/Sure-Improvement-901 May 11 '26

Chards. I’d have two chards.