#NOW. I bought some bare root plants from Home Depot

[anipgarden]

Hey fellow milkweed nerds of Tumblr I have a question.

So. Swamp milkweed. It's pink! That's pretty cool. I wanna know how pink.

Because whenever I google Swamp Milkweed, whether its to look for seeds or plants for sale or just to show other people, the flowers look like this.

[ID: Three pictures of swamp milkweed, all a very very bright vivid hot pink with white middles.]

Thats Fucking Hot Pink. This bright ass pink is what drew me to the plant in the first place. If I were to find my Dream Swamp Milkweed, it would be this pink.

However, a lot of the times, I end up finding swamp milkweed that looks more like this.

[ID: Two pictures of swamp milkweed, both from the same plant. The flowers are a light, nearly white, light pink.]

Its a much lighter, more of a strawberry-milk pink. These are pictures I took from my own swamp milkweed plant, but from the pictures I've seen in my gardening server, a lot of them have plants in a color similar to this.

So what I'm curious about is. If you grow swamp milkweed, or have seen it growing in the wild, have you ever seen it as pink in the first example? Or is it just Photoshop magic? And if you do have it that pink... do you have any seeds you'd be willing to share?

#milkweed #swamp milkweed #pollinator gardening #pollinator garden #asclepias #asclepias incarnata #like im genuinely curious #as the self proclaimed milkweed queen of Tumblr I Want To Know #and also as the self proclaimed milkweed queen of Tumblr if you have a vivid pink milkweed plz send me pics and also seeds #i can send mexican sunflower seeds in return if you want even #i genuinely wanna know because I swear when I see images of vivid pink milkweeds its either a site trying to sell milkweed #or a site trying to promote native milkweeds #NOW. I bought some bare root plants from Home Depot #they haven't flowered yet but if they come back next year and they're vivid ass hot pink then I'll have fulfilled this Research Question #but until they flower next year (if they even come back I kinda neglected them on accident) I am DYING to know #i have seen NO ONE thats like a real person with bright ass pink milkweed #is it a thing they do when the plants are older? is it a specific strain everyone's going crazy over? or is it photoshop #vote now on your phones #ani rambles #out of queue