Posts tagged Planting
Milkweed & its Many Insect Visitors

Milkweed played such an important medicinal role in the Americas that in 1753 Carl Linneaus, the father of taxonomy, named the milkweed family after Asclepias, the Greek God of medicine.

As native plant enthusiasts, we all know and love our milkweed plants and the wonderful monarch butterflies they host.

But do you know other insects that find a home on your milkweed at different times of the year?

Rebecca Vargas goes through the different stages of milkweed and the fascinating insects that appear at different times on your plants.

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"Art and Garden" Event : A Resounding Success

A photo-video-journal of the “Art And Garden” Event on 22nd September 2019, where the Manes Center at the Nassau County Museum of Art teamed with ReWild Long Island to create an incredible day of Children’s illustrations, Storytime readings, Butterfly Workshops, Native Plants Sales and the planting of a Perennial Garden. Mindy Marcus, our reporter extraordinaire, reports from the scene …

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