Gardening with Galligan: Butterfly weeds make a comeback Interrupting our series on vines, I am writing this column on an Island perennial, asclepias tuberosa, because I received a phone call last week from a fellow gardener, Glorian Dorsey. Her spread on North Ferry Road adjoins a 5-acre field, and it was ablaze with butterfly weed.
July 29, 2013 - The Shelter Island Reporter