SEED STORIES | Echinacea: A Long-Blooming Beauty
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- Echinacea is a perennial prairie flower with a long and colorful history in both the garden and the apothecary. Primarily native to the Eastern fields of North America, indigenous tribes prized it as an herbal medicinal for a wide range of ailments, including those related to the common cold. Beginning in the 1990s, a surge of interest in echinacea breeding has produced a dazzling array of new varieties that have more people growing this hardy perennial for its looks than its medicinal properties.
Varieties featured in this video: Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea pallida, Echinacea paradoxa, Double Decker echinacea, Paradiso Mix echinacea, Mellow Yellows echinacea, Green Twister echinacea.
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I love the videos you put out. I wish you would put out more of them. I just can't get enough! LoL! 💖
Love your videos as always interesting and inspiring... Stay safe...
lol on the medicinal commentary. Every herbalist knows the power of echinacea, especially in a tincture.
I've picked up Echinacea for the first time, this year. It seems to start wilting after 3 days without water. I'm in the Seattle area and it's getting partial sunlight, beneath my apple trees... is this reaction normal? Are they that thirsty?
Usually once they're established, they won't require constant watering.
I appreciate all info about butterfly and bee attractors. My grandmother planted many flowers for health and beauty but i was not worried about their names. With the videos i am now discovering the flowers i haven't planted because i could not find them. Thank you
Echinacea is a very beautiful flower. ❤
European colonizers, not settlers.
Awesome info on these beautiful flowers 🌸 thanks for sharing
QUESTION: Do they offer any capability to repel certain pests or animals naturally, like garlic garlic?
Usually the more aromatic plants like basil, lavender, lemongrass, alliums, or even marigolds do a great job.
i have the wide petal yellow variety growing "wild" in the back yard!! i let them grow for the pollinators
Is the voiceover done by one of the hosts of the Plantrama podcast?! I swear it's C.L. or Ellen! Been wondering where I knew the voice from for years if it is!
No, but the Plantrama podcast is cool! Michelle does most of our voiceover work. She is a veteran public media reporter, editor, and producer who now works for Baker Creek.
Appreciated the information.
Can't wait to see mine bloom
I want to write an autobiography just so I can hire Michelle to narrate it :-)
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Awesome plant
This is cool. My wife is from a Montana Indian Reservation. Several years ago, when the market(China) for it was at it’s peak, they(Indians) dug up almost all of the plants. Nearly eradicated it. I dug one to bring home, a 4” tall plant with an 8” tap root.
Her cousin dug one with a 30” tap root. Worth several hundred dollars.
Do y'all have any apothecary/medicinal herb books you recommend?
The herbal drugstore by Rodale’s is excellent
@@farmyourbackyard2023 thank you 😊
I'm partial to the book, The Artisan Herbalist. ;)
@@SmallHouseFarm thank you 😊
Bevin Cohen and Michelle Johnson - The two of you do a terrific job on these SEED STORIES!
Thank you! Best wishes from Kate I. Olympia, WA - 4/29/2021
Anyway in earth to get totoro seeds. The reed that feeds and floats the people of lake titikaka
You're supposed to only take Echinacea root if you're actually sick and then only for a day or two. Taking it as a tonic only dulls its effectiveness in giving the immune system a boost when you need it.
Thanks. I was wonder which part to use, since I buy this as a tea.
@@KristiTalk The root is the medicinal part. The flowers are for the soul. 🥰