My garden club had a Christmas luncheon this past Wednesday and our president Kay Mac Neil presented each of us with a gift, a package of milkweed seed. She introduced a project to save the beautiful Monarch butterfly from extinction. Her letter explaining the project is below. Please read this and decide whether you will take part in saving the Monarch.
Besides finding and planting seeds in your backyard there is another thing you can do, stop buying cocaine. The Monarch winters in the high mountains of Mexico and cocaine growers are killing Monarch habitat. We can plant all the seed we want in the upper forty-eight, but if there is no winter home for the Monarch all we will have are yards full of milkweed. Not that milkweed isn’t a desirable plant but it is one that seeds by blowing fine cottony puff balls around the universe. I already have a yard lined by cottonwood trees which sends out puff balls in enormous quantities making it look like it is snowing in June. I like the orange and black Monarchs and will endure puff balls for their sake, but the cottonwoods have given them a bad name.
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