Butterflies nice addition to garden

To the editor:

Stately, tropical-looking milkweed plants are so pretty they ought to be renamed 'milkflower.”

With their wide, oval, rubberplant-like leaves and pink or orange flower heads about the size of a lady's fist blooming along their five- or six-foot stalks, they make a striking vertical addition to any foundation planting.

Last year one grew near my backdoor patio and drew quite a few Monarch butterflies. This year it became a clump of three tall stalks tough enough to rise above the knee-high ribbon grass beneath, and lured a lot of butterflies fluttering around. Sometimes, as I sipped my morning coffee nearby, a butterfly would come to rest a moment on my chest as if to say, 'Thanks.” Lovely.

Hope Sankot-Rogers

Vinton