Monarch Mania Garden Kit - 72 plants
Can be shipped.
This Garden Kit includes 72 plants, a garden design, and instructions for planting and maintenance. The design and instructions are available here. We recommend reading the instructions page before purchasing.
The Monarch Mania Garden Kit has one purpose—to attract a MASSIVE amount of monarchs to your yard. This garden is a front-yard jaw dropper—neighbors and walkers will be shocked at how many monarchs are in your yard. They’ll ask, “Did you plant milkweed?” and then you’ll have to explain, “Yes, but it’s really the Meadow Blazing Star flowers that are bringing them in, it gives them nectar during their migration south, you should try planting some too…”
This garden has two types of milkweed to support monarch eggs and caterpillars, but the real attraction is the Meadow Blazing Star flowers which attract swarms of monarchs for its nectar in late summer. For some reason monarchs are extremely attracted to Meadow Blazing Star flowers and you can expect monarchs all day, every day from mid-August until early September. This isn’t something you have to wait a few years for, either—they’ll show up in August right when the Blazing Stars start to bloom the first year. You have to see it to believe it!
We also added some Pussytoes, which are a host flower for Painted Lady butterflies, and you can expect a lot of those prolific butterflies in your garden too!
Details
Perennials
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium
Height: 10 inches - 5 feet
Blooms: May - October
Spacing: Plant each plant about 12″ apart
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Butterflies, Pollinators, Birds
Size: One tray of 72 plants
Plants are 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep “plugs”. These 72 plugs come in a single tray that’s 11” x 21” long.
They are small but grow surprisingly big the 1st year and are large, flowering plants the 2nd year.
We use these “plugs” for our own projects because they are budget friendly and very easy to plant.
Plants included:
Flowers:
6 Pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia)
6 Marsh Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
12 Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
1 Aromatic Aster (Aster oblongifolius)
6 Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
32 Meadow Blazing Star (Liatris ligulistylis)
6 Prairie Phlox (Phlox pilosa)
3 Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)
Note on Species: Depending on germination and greenhouse success we may have to substitute a species or two, but usually this list is spot on.
Installation Tips:
This Garden Kit will plant an area from 10ft x 10ft up to 10ft x 15ft, depending on how you like to space the plants.
It’s important to remove any grass or weed roots before planting. If you remove grass with a shovel, it can take a few hours. If you want to smother it with paper or cardboard, it can take 2-3 months. Plan ahead of time.
We recommend adding 3” of wood mulch (not included). Wood mulch reduces weeds, reduces watering to just 3-5 times the first year, and nearly doubles plant growth—well worth the extra work and cost (about $50 for a 10ft x 10ft area).
We recommend adding edging to prevent grass or weeds from creeping into the garden (not included).
