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New sales you're going to love! It's warming up at West End Florist and Garden Center.  We have promotions in store all month long. Stop by today to see what's new! Summer Favorites College Staff's Favorites Butterfly Gardening Monarchs Life Cycle of a Monarch 4 days for a caterpillar to emerge from and egg 10-14 days as a caterpillar munching away on any type of Asclepias 10-14 days as a Chyrsalis turning into a butterfly 2-5 weeks as a butterfly However, the last generation (early fall), this generation can live up to 8 months as they travel back South and live.  Fun Facts about Monarchs Monarchs migrate up to 2800 miles Each season produces about four generations of monarchs What you need to help Monarchs Flat rocks in the sun for Monarchs to stop and rest Course Sand in a shallow pan filled with water to stay moist to provide water and minerals Host Plants – Where the Monarch lay their eggs and their babies can eat Asclepias incarnate - Common Name:  Swamp Milkweed Asclepias syriaca - Common Name: Common Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa - Common Name: Butterfly Milkweed Nectar Plants – What Monarchs like to sip when they are butterflies (this list is just a sample of what Monarchs like to drink) Ageratum Lobularia Alyssum Cleome Coreopsis lanceolata Common Name: Lanceleaf Tickseed Dianthus Echinacea pallida Common Name: Pale Purple Coneflower Eupatorium purpureum Common Name: Sweetscented Joe Pye Helenium autunale Common Name: Common Sneezeweed Liatris spicata Common Name: Dense Blazing Star Lantana Salvia Symphyotrichum cordifolium Common Name: Common Blue Wood Aster Symphyotrichum lanceolatum Common Name: White Panicle Aster Symphyotrichum novae‐angliae Common Name: New England Aster Viburnum prunifolium Common Name: Blackhaw Zinnia elegans Common Name:  Zinnia Zizia aurea Common Name: Golden Zizia We are a fourth generation family business established in 1908, specialists in filling your life with flowers. Growers of fabulous succulents, annuals, perennials, shrubs, vegetable plants, houseplants, tropicals, container plants, hanging baskets, mixed containers. A wide selection of pottery, soil amendments, and gardening needs. Specialty florist, greenhouse, garden center and nursery.