I do! Tried crossing with some hoyas...so far, unsuccesful, but I'm stubborn!

Hope you succeed one day. Very cool looking plants. These popped up on their own but they are not invasive at all.

If you gather seeds id be interested some time, perhaps if growm from seed they'd do better in pot?

Thought about that. Hoping they get larger and thrive :) there is another asclepia vine with georgous flowers that just regrew. I almost thought it wasn't coming back this yr. There was someone here that I promised seeds to if it ever came back. If these 2 set seed. I'll totally share.

" there is another asclepia vine with gorgeous flowers that just regrew." Don'tleave us hanging? what is it? do you have photos?

I posted pictures of it last yr. It was covered in flowers. It didn't come back this yr but my hubby sent me pics of one that he found behind my greenhouse yesterday. He sent me these pics while I was at work.

We have Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) all over the place, I leave them in place and even mow around them. I think they smell wonderful and my bees go crazy over them.

Funny thing is being new to Hoyas, I never even thought of them being similar.

We let them be invasive at our local elementary school hoping to help preserve the monarch butterfly population.

This is the vine that appeared in my yard last year. I was in awe and yes, the bees went crazy for it!

Our native milkweeds do not transplant well at all, and will not grow well in pots either. They're very much tap rooted and that causes neither above situation to work well, and they're also very moisture sensitive and tend to get too much in pots.

Gorgeous! I have a patch of Common Milkweed and a couple of Swamp Milkweed plants (gorgeous fragrance) for my Monarchs and other little "flowers of the air" as I read them called once.

Aurora, don't give up on crossing a Hoya with some Milkweed. I'd love to have a hardy Hoya in the garden! :)

Brad AKA Moonwolf

A bunch of seed pods of this asclepia vine!!...man, aphids love this thing but can't spray it. Saw little caterpillars on some leaves.

Still interested in seeds, milkweed used to be all over but i havent seen it in a while

Funny that I have never seen that before. We have several kinds of milkweeds that we grow here but none are vines. Interesting.

Staci, message me your address.

Let me know if you want seeds Laura.

Lydia, email me your address and I'll email you mine. My asclepia tuberosa put out a gazillion pods, as did my incarnata, if you want to trade!

Sure!....sending address

Aurorawa, I can't send you a message through GW.

email me @ john underscore (the symbol) huck at live :)

Lydia Kennedy are the zizotes milkweed producing seed pods?

The one in the first pic? There are 4 little plants in my yard but i only see 1 seed pod.

Yes the one in the first pic. If it produces seeds I would love some. Maybe we could do a trade. I have lots of other milkweed species I could trade.

Havent forgotten about you all. Waiting on these things to ripen...neighbor ripped out the vine as it was growing on his fence. There are a few pods he left dangling. (Maybe 'cause he saw them covered in my little mesh bags and butterfly clips lol)

Thanks. Just let me know when your zizotes pods ripen. That's sad about the milkweed vine. Hopefully the seeds will grow a new vine.

Hey, i got a monarch caterpillar!!

He looks healthy. Hope he gets to Mexico soon!

Yeah, its a fatty!

Dang, Lydia, your yard is magic. I say again for the third time, I'm coming back to Texas with my hoyas and living in your yard! :-D :-D :-D

Lol...i wish i had acreage. I would turn it into a butterfly sactuary :)....i do love south tx weather. Well, only because of what thrives here. Not a fan of the humidity but the Hoyas are ;-)

The first zizotes seed pod just split. Its going to aurora. Found lots more in the ones growing in the front yard. When they split ill get with you, William.

Ok! Thanks Lydia;)

Forgot to show this pic. He already made his crystalis. We found him right on time. There would have been no place for him to hang. The milkweed that he was on is so low to the ground and nothing around him but grass. I moved him to my tall milkweed where he made his crystalis the next day.

William, can you send me your address? Got another pod that split already.

Thanks for these seeds!!!! Did get my address?

Got it and you are welcome!