The Magic Meadow Bundle is your invitation to grow a vibrant pollinator patch filled with color, life, and purpose. Each bundle combines Swamp Milkweed seeds, the essential host plant for monarch caterpillars, with a diverse mix of native wildflowers that provide nectar for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds all season long.

 

Scatter these seeds into prepared soil, let nature guide them, and watch as your meadow slowly awakens. The first year is for roots and green growth, the second year is when the true magic begins with blooms bursting with color and pollinators dancing among them.

 

What’s Inside

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

• Host plant for monarch caterpillars

• Tall, graceful plant with pink flower clusters

• Blooms in mid to late summer beginning the second year

• Thrives in moist to wet soil, full sun to part sun

 

Native Wildflowers in the Mix

• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) – long lasting purple blooms loved by butterflies and goldfinches

• Lance Leaved Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) – bright golden flowers in late spring to early summer

• Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) – bold red and yellow daisy like flowers, great for summer color

• Gaura (Gaura lindheimeri) – airy white to pink flowers that dance in the breeze

• Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea) – striking red blooms that draw hummingbirds and butterflies

• Gayfeather (Liatris spicata) – tall spikes of purple flowers, a butterfly magnet

• Annual Red Phlox (Phlox drummondii) – bright annual color, perfect for filling gaps

• Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) – yellow summer blooms, important nectar source for bees and butterflies

• Leavenworth’s Tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii) – cheerful golden flowers, long blooming

• Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) – unique spiky white blooms, loved by native bees

• Gilia (Ipomopsis rubra) – fiery red tubular flowers, a favorite of hummingbirds

• Clasping Coneflower (Rudbeckia amplexicaulis) – yellow and red blooms that bring summer meadows alive

• New England Aster (Aster novae angliae) – late season purple blooms, crucial nectar for migrating monarchs

• Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria) – yellow and maroon blooms that naturalize easily

How It Works

• Scatter milkweed seeds onto prepared soil in a sunny location; do not bury them, as they need light to germinate. Gently press the seeds into the soil surface so they stay in place.

• Lightly press or gently rake the wildflower seeds into the top ⅛ inch of soil so they make good contact while staying near the surface.

• Rain, sun, and time awaken the seeds naturally

• Milkweed focuses on root growth the first year, with blooms beginning the second year.

• Wildflowers begin blooming sooner, filling the garden with nectar and color as the milkweed matures.

 

With the Magic Meadow Bundle, every seed becomes part of a story in bloom.