FREE SEEDS for your own butterfly garden: Here’s how you can help save monarch butterflies in Texas

You can get free butterfly garden seeds in an effort to save monarch butterflies in Texas, y’all.

Butterfly populations have seen a decline in recent years, but you can save them for free through the Live Monarch Educational Foundation’s program.

The Live Monarch Educational Foundation will send free milkweed seeds, but there are some special instructions you need to follow. Here’s an update from Live Monarch:

Live Monarch said in our comments on this story: “This gift is for people that visit our site and have read about our program and can not afford to pay for the seeds we offer - 40+ seeds per dollar. These small purchases allow us to continue this 20+ year campaign for kids and people that really need it. Our site asks that our PO Box not be listed as this will bypass our message and and eliminate the educational resource our site www.LiveMonarch.com has to offer. Over FIVE thousand people recently sent in empty envelopes, no notes letting us know the types of milkweed they prefer, many without a return stamp, they missed the opportunity to really get the main educational value of our campaign and possibly buy a few more seeds to help keep this going. By default we choose Asclepias Syriaca for most of Texas. If you have seed to share please contact us as many varieties are difficult to source and we can not grow all we share.

Please ensure we are able to continue this program by following our simple requests.”

For additional seeds, you can also include a donation, in which Live Monarch will send 40 or more seeds per dollar as a thank-you.

Here’s the address where envelopes can be mailed, but be sure to follow the instructions outlined here.

Have you done this program in the past? Share a photo of your milkweed plants on Click2Pins.com and we could feature you.