This video shows you how to germinate milkweed plants. Milkweed plants are great for monarch butterflies and for bringing in insects that help pollinate gardens.

Milkweed plants are attractive plants and don't need much care. In fact milkweed plants don't need to be fertilized and they are perennial plants.
One thing you should remember about milkweed plants, if you grow them from seeds, is that they need to go thru a process called Cold Stratification.

Seeds of most temperate plants need to be stratified, which is a fancy way of saying that they need cold treatment. To stratify seeds, place them in moist potting soil, wrapped in plastic or place in a ziplock bag. Refrigerate the seeds and soil for 24 weeks. After a stratification period , the seeds can be planted in warm (70˚F), sunny area. Without stratification, the percentage of seeds that germinate is usually low. Seeds from the tropical milkweed, (and other tropical milkweed species) do not require this treatment. "Shocking" seeds that have been refrigerated by soaking them in warm water for 24 hours also seems to improve germination rates.