Perfect timing.. I am looking for plants to help create not only habitat for critters but privacy from the road and VERY annoying neighbors. This has just shot up to the top of the list! We love our hummers...
Your show gets better and better in regards to your speaking skills, camera, information, background music, etc. Keep up the good work!! love firebush, effortless to grow.
I love Hamelia patens. We grow it up in St Augustine, now. We are going to be moving up to SE Georgia, soon, and I will be sure to take a few plants with me to plant up there. It's probably a little cooler up there than here, but our Firebush has been wiped out in Winter freezes and has come back strong every time. I like what you do in your videos. Please keep up the good work.
One thing I don't think Mr. K. mentioned is that, once established, you can cut this sucker to the ground and it will come back in the spring bigger and better than ever. If it dies back in a hard winter or just gets too woody, cut it down low. One of my customers has these in the beds in front of the house (she sits in front of the window watching the h'birds & b'flies, no feeder needed) and if I don't keep them trimmed, by the end of our long, hot, wet (that's going a strange direction) summer, they'll be bigger than the house. They take well to shaping however you want (round, square, natural) or not trimming at all. Cut a little or cut a lot and they just fill right in and add a great tropical look.
Great short video...Hummingbirds and Zebra Helicon butterflies frequent my Firebush too. Definitely great for chop-and -drop as they grow profusely without any attention on my property. I think that I'll plant more. Thank you, Mr. Kanaris.
l'm in The Florida Native Plant Society. lf you care about planting the "proper" plant, please plant the true native... the 2nd one Pete showed. Don't forget, birds eat the berries and replant for us. We want them reseeding with the right one. The true native can get large and grows fast, give it space. Florida's state butterfly, the zebra longwing, loves this plant!
Wow I never knew it is used as medicine... this plant is seen on most places in my place (I'm from India) and is a nectar rich plant which almost every pollinators feed on. You can spot pollinators from ant to sunbirds! I grew it from a small cutting which eventually turned to a big bush. It has its own natural shape but I like to prune its undersides so that my cat won't try to hunt butterflies😅. It is such a low maintenance plant and I have never seen any disease or pests on it. It's a beautiful plant you can grow to attract butterflies and more....
Pete, you're killin' me here. I swear I almost bought one two weeks ago but wasn't sure where to put it. There's only so much space I have here in Largo near the beach. Now I HAVE to get some regardless. I have a jungle in this little 1/4 acre. Buuut, it still makes me happy here until we get real achrage. I just picked up two Jabos, one being a red from Adam. I'm going to need to get a trailer just to move all our trees/bushes to the new property when we finally commit to a buy. Meanwhile, I'll just have to keep making space. 😯
Love the short content videos man! I finally found and tried the American Beauty Bush that you did the video on a little bit ago! It tasted kind of like a mild apple mixed with a potato lol. Keep Growin on man!!
What I'm seeing for Hamelia patens is, Mexican Firebush A small, shrubby bush, with little, red-purple colored edible fruits. Also noteworthy for its fire-red/orange blossoms which are popular with hummingbirds and butterflies. Grows to 3-6 feet. Hardy to mild frosts, but it is fast-growing and can be grown as an annual. I'm going to have to try that one too, maybe it will kill the itching and swelling of spider bites too. Thanks Pete that's really great..
Ha !! I know you love the Hamelia Patens plant, Pete...I have one I constantly prune now here in AZ...grows "reasonably" well here too--I probably still have it at 10+ ft tall. Lots of pollinators are good ! (I am more of an eclectic gardener). Great plant !! And great video (as always ;) )
Great to know! We have this in our landscape, although I doubt it's the native variety. I'm always getting bit up by mosquitoes, so I'll give that a try.
We have a firebush growing in our yard. Not sure the variety but my little ones eat the black berries that grow on them. They told me they taste like grapes. I read they are ediable and people have used them to make jellies/jams and syrups out of
Great, thank you for this. I'm a disabled vet and my Dr says this may help with some issues, so I'm going to start planting. I'm in Central Florida zone 9b, no idea what I'm doing.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL i am very nice to it. lots of mulch and compost to keep it warmer..if we have a serious winter i may cover it with some straw. but so far 3 years it is good to go. one benefit from global warming i guess.
So happy to see this video, I just planted a Hamelia patens in my yard about a week ago. No pollinators yet because it's still tiny. What are your thoughts on pruning it into a standard (tree-shape) form? Just for fun. I'm on a fairly small lot, so it would be nice to have the height of the firebush with some other plants tucked up right underneath it to maximize the real estate. It's still only about 18 inches tall, so I have some time to decide.
I just bought some from a nursery. I am not sure if is real or dwarf. What is the size difference between the two. Is it just the leaves or is there a height that the dwarf would grow to. Great video! Thank you!
Thanks for the video the wife has a butterfly garden and we planted a few fire bush I noticed one of the fire bush has a lots of red to it don’t know what variety it is we’ll the other are just green
Thanks Pete. Please continue to post videos on beneficial plants. I have a question. Have you ever used a product called tanglefoot? I have a problem with ants on my fruit trees and this was recommended as a possible solution.
Aphids and ant farmers love these plants so keep neem oil on hand, you might get “neem burn” on the areas sprayed it just shrivels the leaves but it should grow out of that
Jeff Israel maybe because I don’t water them they only get the rain, they are wild volunteers that grew from birds dropping them I guess, they are drought tolerant but I’m sure that means they aren’t 100% good
Would like to plant this, however, from what I've read is toxic to dogs. What other plants can you recommend to attract hummingbirds/butterflies that aren't toxic to dogs.
Is this also called Mexican fire plant? I have some blooming right now and it is magical to watch. Looks like I have some research to do - thanks so much for the latin name!
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL I've been busy since that comment and found a few sites that mention that name and with the latin name, I see that from the pictures on-line, they look exactly the same as my plant. I have also discovered that the berries are edible. Only two sites mentioned it but I do want to get more info on that. Will keep searching. Thank you again for the latin name.
@@natrone23 I'm gonna look into it. I love that its a good bite fixer. We have little fire ants here and they are awful. Plus the hummibird moths will probably like it.
🤔 your neighbor is pretty specific when he hates flowers!! Does he hate any other specific nationality named flower or just all foreigners flowers? I bet he likes tequilla though.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL have to wait until they are about to fall off the plant, it could be that certain cultivars taste better as well. I have the large shiny leaf firebush here and I ate almost a pound of fruit off it last fall.
I have 2 firebushes in my yard, which I just found out are the fake ones. I've been trying to find the true firebush and NO ONE has them for sale!! WHERE CAN i GET ONE???
Is the reddish vein/leaf stem indicative of the native variety? I'm pretty sure I have the hybridized variety, but have noticed specimens with a red vein like the one you showed. Here's a picture of one I spotted in my neighborhood. instagram.com/p/B1g73Gegeq5/
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Hi Pete, huge fan btw. I dont think so, because its hapening just in this video. Its fine though, i only like to have subtitles when my son is sleeping nearby, you know babies. Hey, thanks for the help i guess. Keep it up and keep that dirt pounded 😃
Mine all switched to mandrin. Try you tube settings first turn off capts turn back on turn phone or computer off then on, if that doest work goto regular settings and make sure closed caption is marked english.
Mmm, im not a botanist and im not saying youre wrong, but according to fann.org, Compacta is not native. " Non-native H. patens var. glabra (frequently sold as 'African' or 'Dwarf' and sometimes 'Compacta'). Non-native H. cuprea. Non-native hybrid of H. cuprea and H. patens." The only native species is Hamelia patens var. patens
Well the biggest native nursery in the state sells it as native. It’s also at the Florida native plant show yearly. I’m not really quite sure about the story behind this one.
There's a lot of misinformation being given in this video. First of all, there is only one variety of Hamelia patens that is native to Florida, and that is Hamelia patens var. patens, which has red flowers and reaches about 16' tall if not pruned. It's native to central and southern Florida, the West Indies, and from Mexico south to Brazil and Argentina. The plant called "dwarf firebush" is not a nursery hybrid as was stated, it's a distinct botanical variety called Hamelia patens var. glabra and is characterized by its yellow flowers with an orange base, and is native to southern Mexico south into northern South America, plus Trinidad and Tobago. The plant that he mentioned called 'Compacta' is not a valid botanical variety, nor is it native to Florida. It's nothing more than a small-leaved, compact cultivar of Hamelia patens var. glabra. The non-native variety hybridizes with the native variety and creates intermediate forms, creating even more confusion. Interesting that Hamelia patens var. glabra was first introduced into the Florida nursery trade in the 1980s as 'African firebush' because the original plant material came from a botanical garden in Pretoria, South Africa (there are no Hamelia species native to Africa). If you're going to grow Hamelia patens to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, plant the Florida native var. patens.
Whaaat... native attractor to beneficial insects, chop n drop, and medicinal!? Winner
Winner winner!
The fruit is also edible.
Perfect timing.. I am looking for plants to help create not only habitat for critters but privacy from the road and VERY annoying neighbors. This has just shot up to the top of the list! We love our hummers...
Storm Agorist perfect choice for that.
Your show gets better and better in regards to your speaking skills, camera, information, background music, etc.
Keep up the good work!!
love firebush, effortless to grow.
I love Hamelia patens. We grow it up in St Augustine, now. We are going to be moving up to SE Georgia, soon, and I will be sure to take a few plants with me to plant up there. It's probably a little cooler up there than here, but our Firebush has been wiped out in Winter freezes and has come back strong every time. I like what you do in your videos. Please keep up the good work.
That’s awesome! Thanks Robert
One thing I don't think Mr. K. mentioned is that, once established, you can cut this sucker to the ground and it will come back in the spring bigger and better than ever. If it dies back in a hard winter or just gets too woody, cut it down low. One of my customers has these in the beds in front of the house (she sits in front of the window watching the h'birds & b'flies, no feeder needed) and if I don't keep them trimmed, by the end of our long, hot, wet (that's going a strange direction) summer, they'll be bigger than the house. They take well to shaping however you want (round, square, natural) or not trimming at all. Cut a little or cut a lot and they just fill right in and add a great tropical look.
Thanks! I didn’t forget to mention that part.
Great short video...Hummingbirds and Zebra Helicon butterflies frequent my Firebush too. Definitely great for chop-and -drop as they grow profusely without any attention on my property. I think that I'll plant more. Thank you, Mr. Kanaris.
Just moved and haven't started yet but you are giving me so many things I want to grow. Now to hit the lottery 😂😂
Hahah happy planting!!
Your editing and filming is as awesome as your garden and botanical knowledge. Thank you so much for the beautiful and inspiring videos.
I have EPIC editors 🙌
i have most varieties of these plants the tree type Native one that grows to 10 ft or more is the best the trunk formation is beautiful.
Love the knowledge Pete, Great short video
Thank you!
l'm in The Florida Native Plant Society. lf you care about planting the "proper" plant, please plant the true native... the 2nd one Pete showed. Don't forget, birds eat the berries and replant for us. We want them reseeding with the right one. The true native can get large and grows fast, give it space. Florida's state butterfly, the zebra longwing, loves this plant!
gcxred4kat9 this is so true and they reseed so easily I have several in my yard and they are great in shade or full sun.
Agreed! I got mine from a FANN nursery, so I feel confident about it without having to spend hours researching.
wow just bought a firebush today in dunnellon, its a variety with lime green leaves and same red flower. they told me it was a good native plant also!
The fire bush is a really good looking plant
I have two right outside my kitchen window, so pretty...been lucky with stings so far this summer(knock on wood)...
Wow I never knew it is used as medicine... this plant is seen on most places in my place (I'm from India) and is a nectar rich plant which almost every pollinators feed on. You can spot pollinators from ant to sunbirds! I grew it from a small cutting which eventually turned to a big bush. It has its own natural shape but I like to prune its undersides so that my cat won't try to hunt butterflies😅. It is such a low maintenance plant and I have never seen any disease or pests on it. It's a beautiful plant you can grow to attract butterflies and more....
Pete, you're killin' me here. I swear I almost bought one two weeks ago but wasn't sure where to put it. There's only so much space I have here in Largo near the beach. Now I HAVE to get some regardless. I have a jungle in this little 1/4 acre. Buuut, it still makes me happy here until we get real achrage. I just picked up two Jabos, one being a red from Adam. I'm going to need to get a trailer just to move all our trees/bushes to the new property when we finally commit to a buy. Meanwhile, I'll just have to keep making space. 😯
I just moved from Largo( born and raised) to San Antonio, FL. Im already filling up the yard with things I didn’t have room for down there.
Love the short content videos man! I finally found and tried the American Beauty Bush that you did the video on a little bit ago! It tasted kind of like a mild apple mixed with a potato lol. Keep Growin on man!!
Thanks man! Love was a great description of beauty berry 🤣
What I'm seeing for Hamelia patens is, Mexican Firebush A small, shrubby bush, with little, red-purple colored edible fruits. Also noteworthy for its fire-red/orange blossoms which are popular with hummingbirds and butterflies. Grows to 3-6 feet. Hardy to mild frosts, but it is fast-growing and can be grown as an annual.
I'm going to have to try that one too, maybe it will kill the itching and swelling of spider bites too.
Thanks Pete that's really great..
Ha !! I know you love the Hamelia Patens plant, Pete...I have one I constantly prune now here in AZ...grows "reasonably" well here too--I probably still have it at 10+ ft tall. Lots of pollinators are good ! (I am more of an eclectic gardener). Great plant !! And great video (as always ;) )
One of my favorites! Thanks Jeff 👊
Great to know! We have this in our landscape, although I doubt it's the native variety. I'm always getting bit up by mosquitoes, so I'll give that a try.
Thanks, Pete.
We have a firebush growing in our yard. Not sure the variety but my little ones eat the black berries that grow on them. They told me they taste like grapes. I read they are ediable and people have used them to make jellies/jams and syrups out of
Was going to give ours away because I didn't know it was medicine! Thank you!
Glad you watched!
Great, thank you for this. I'm a disabled vet and my Dr says this may help with some issues, so I'm going to start planting. I'm in Central Florida zone 9b, no idea what I'm doing.
Thanks! Your doctor recommended Firebush? Very interesting.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL gardening. Sorry.
This plant attracts not only hummingbirds and the zebra-long-wings butterfly, but I also often see green anoles on the plants as well.
How do we get rid of those tiny velociraptors?
Awesome video man!
Here in Coastal NC i have it growing next to zone 1-2 garden
Wow! Thanks awesome. Mine does recover after a serious frost.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL i am very nice to it. lots of mulch and compost to keep it warmer..if we have a serious winter i may cover it with some straw. but so far 3 years it is good to go. one benefit from global warming i guess.
Great plant
What’s Growin’ On!
Just bought a Fire bush today and I already pounded dirt & got her in the ground in SWFL.
I’ll let ya know how she’s doing 🤜🤙🏝️
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Love your GreenDreams hat! 👊🏻 wish I had one!
Thanks Deanna! I hope to offer merch through my online store at some point.
I think I'll find one soon to add to my collection. Thank you
Awesome! 🙌
So happy to see this video, I just planted a Hamelia patens in my yard about a week ago. No pollinators yet because it's still tiny. What are your thoughts on pruning it into a standard (tree-shape) form? Just for fun. I'm on a fairly small lot, so it would be nice to have the height of the firebush with some other plants tucked up right underneath it to maximize the real estate. It's still only about 18 inches tall, so I have some time to decide.
Yes, it loves to be pruned and recovers great.
I like plant specific videos. And that you mention using it as a Poultice. :)
Thanks Jason! 👊
What's growing on! Sick editing bruddah
Thanks Tyler! 👊
Very interesting!
Thank for sharing
I'm looking for a bush. But I've been told that when it is boiled it turns the water red.
Is it possible that someone could try boiling some.
I just bought some from a nursery. I am not sure if is real or dwarf. What is the size difference between the two. Is it just the leaves or is there a height that the dwarf would grow to. Great video! Thank you!
A close family friend has hooked me up with a fire bush from her house I’m picking it up today!
Score! 👊
Thanks for the video the wife has a butterfly garden and we planted a few fire bush I noticed one of the fire bush has a lots of red to it don’t know what variety it is we’ll the other are just green
Nice! Do you think it will make it in NC? I'm in zone 7a-6b.
I’ve heard coastal NC
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL gotcha. I'm in the middle of the state close to the Virginia border.
How will it do in full sun? I'm Panama City and hurricane took all our trees
Great! It can handle both full sun or dappled light.
Thanks Pete. Please continue to post videos on beneficial plants. I have a question. Have you ever used a product called tanglefoot? I have a problem with ants on my fruit trees and this was recommended as a possible solution.
Thanks Angela! Yes, we have tangle foot on our fruit trees in the greenhouse. You have to reapply it fairly often.
Is it invasive to other plants? Where is the best place to plant?
Aphids and ant farmers love these plants so keep neem oil on hand, you might get “neem burn” on the areas sprayed it just shrivels the leaves but it should grow out of that
Jeff Israel not sure why aphids wouldn’t like firebush, they happen to mine.
Jeff Israel “new growth may be attacked by aphids” new growth happens all over these plants they grow huge
Jeff Israel maybe because I don’t water them they only get the rain, they are wild volunteers that grew from birds dropping them I guess, they are drought tolerant but I’m sure that means they aren’t 100% good
Mine growing up would get aphids and get COVERED in ladybugs and larva it was really cool.
🤣🤣🤣 ohhhmymyyy
This is exactly what I used to do when I was a kid on others herbs plant tooooo✨✨✨
The Native variety I have in the yard turns reddish in the winter here 9b. Not sure the name.
Would like to plant this, however, from what I've read is toxic to dogs. What other plants can you recommend to attract hummingbirds/butterflies that aren't toxic to dogs.
We grow it on the farm with no problem! Try Coral Honeysuckle
Is this also called Mexican fire plant? I have some blooming right now and it is magical to watch. Looks like I have some research to do - thanks so much for the latin name!
I’ve never heard it called that one..
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL I've been busy since that comment and found a few sites that mention that name and with the latin name, I see that from the pictures on-line, they look exactly the same as my plant. I have also discovered that the berries are edible. Only two sites mentioned it but I do want to get more info on that. Will keep searching. Thank you again for the latin name.
They grow in Mexico native. Look the same as I have seen in Florida native.
Didn't they used to call Lindsay Lohan firebush? Awesome vid.
A tea from the leaves helps to reduce prostatitis.
Interesting, wonder if I can find this in Hawaii. Or if it'll go invasive.
Dayna Robertson's Big Island Hawaii Homestead , doesn’t really spread much that I have seen.
@@natrone23 I'm gonna look into it. I love that its a good bite fixer. We have little fire ants here and they are awful. Plus the hummibird moths will probably like it.
Thanks Xxx
Is the non native plant still medicinal?
Used to have it around when I was a kid.We call it “karanfoo gihaa”(clove tree),I guess it is because the flower is shaped like cloves.
Interesting.
QUESTION: Will that grow in Zone 7?
Probably. It'll die back in a hard frost, but it may come back. Your best bet is to find a similar plant that is native to your area.
2:19 My neighbor hates Mexican sunflowers he’s an old alcoholic who hates everything lmao
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🤔 your neighbor is pretty specific when he hates flowers!! Does he hate any other specific nationality named flower or just all foreigners flowers? I bet he likes tequilla though.
Test Fortester tell him their called Inca gold! They pay you back in millions! 🌻 🌎 🕊
You didn't mention it makes a pretty tasty edible fruit? I eat them, completely raw.
Maybe I need to try them more. I always thought they were pretty lame and left them for the birds.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL have to wait until they are about to fall off the plant, it could be that certain cultivars taste better as well. I have the large shiny leaf firebush here and I ate almost a pound of fruit off it last fall.
The intro was so gangster 🤣
Lauren Haber No, it was FIRE (bush)!
Love it! 👊
Burn! Lol, It was 👊
Agreed great intro..what song was that?
I have 2 firebushes in my yard, which I just found out are the fake ones. I've been trying to find the true firebush and NO ONE has them for sale!! WHERE CAN i GET ONE???
Is the reddish vein/leaf stem indicative of the native variety? I'm pretty sure I have the hybridized variety, but have noticed specimens with a red vein like the one you showed. Here's a picture of one I spotted in my neighborhood. instagram.com/p/B1g73Gegeq5/
Red flowers are native and non native is more orange yellow
Why do i only have subtitles in Russian? Any one else have this problem?Thanks.
That’s weird. Maybe you hit something?
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL
Hi Pete, huge fan btw.
I dont think so, because its hapening just in this video.
Its fine though, i only like to have subtitles when my son is sleeping nearby, you know babies.
Hey, thanks for the help i guess.
Keep it up and keep that dirt pounded 😃
Mine all switched to mandrin. Try you tube settings first turn off capts turn back on turn phone or computer off then on, if that doest work goto regular settings and make sure closed caption is marked english.
Cuz Its FIRE! P.D.!
Biden's Alba leaves have a similar effect and also grow natively in Florida 🥰
☂️💜
Wow weird. I just got a bunch of this at a plant swap!
How cool! Talk about timing 😉
Mmm, im not a botanist and im not saying youre wrong, but according to fann.org, Compacta is not native.
" Non-native H. patens var. glabra (frequently sold as 'African' or 'Dwarf' and sometimes 'Compacta'). Non-native H. cuprea. Non-native hybrid of H. cuprea and H. patens."
The only native species is Hamelia patens var. patens
Well the biggest native nursery in the state sells it as native. It’s also at the Florida native plant show yearly. I’m not really quite sure about the story behind this one.
hello
There's a lot of misinformation being given in this video. First of all, there is only one variety of Hamelia patens that is native to Florida, and that is Hamelia patens var. patens, which has red flowers and reaches about 16' tall if not pruned. It's native to central and southern Florida, the West Indies, and from Mexico south to Brazil and Argentina. The plant called "dwarf firebush" is not a nursery hybrid as was stated, it's a distinct botanical variety called Hamelia patens var. glabra and is characterized by its yellow flowers with an orange base, and is native to southern Mexico south into northern South America, plus Trinidad and Tobago. The plant that he mentioned called 'Compacta' is not a valid botanical variety, nor is it native to Florida. It's nothing more than a small-leaved, compact cultivar of Hamelia patens var. glabra. The non-native variety hybridizes with the native variety and creates intermediate forms, creating even more confusion. Interesting that Hamelia patens var. glabra was first introduced into the Florida nursery trade in the 1980s as 'African firebush' because the original plant material came from a botanical garden in Pretoria, South Africa (there are no Hamelia species native to Africa). If you're going to grow Hamelia patens to attract hummingbirds and butterflies, plant the Florida native var. patens.
That plant isn't as cool as you are though!
Awww thanks! 😊