coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens Monarchs have evolved a unique relationship with milkweed, making it the only plant on which they can lay their eggs and their caterpillars can feed.
Finish my poem contest, Sponsor Mystic Rose Rose . Posted 12/4/2025 ~~~ As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia beneath a tinted sky of April blue flight of fancy fanning fast, fabulous marvel, she is beauty true on true ~~~~~~~ From flower to flower she wends her way, searching, seeking out the very best The cottage garden flowers they all delight but is on the milkweed she comes to rest. It’s here she’ll lay her clutch of eggs upon this common plant. and when the babes arrive They will feed their fill on milkweed leaves, they need them to survive Then nature, in her mothering way, in silk will wrap them up real tight And they will slumber on the milkweed leaves ‘til comes the time for their maiden flight Then through the miracle of metamorphosis when the work of the chrysalis is done A host of Monarch butterflies, from out the lowly milkweed patch, will rise to greet the sun.
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