Great video. Got some tree huggers in the comments. Im growing one and assumed it was some hybrid. That's awesome its native to central America. I tell ya, these people crying about pollinators. We have some real wimps in the world right now. 😊
I never cut down my pineapple sage when it's flowering, what a waste...pollinators love them and you are depriving them of a food source. just cut them down when the flowers are spent. you can also just cut the leaves and use those.
We have 36 acres of land, much of which is wild, and full of flowering plants - we love our pollinators! In Michigan where we are, our pineapple sage flowers late in the fall, usually after frost, when most pollinators are already ready for winter and have stocked their stores with honey made from other native flowering plants. The only reason it flowers (and makes it through the winter) is because we grow it in greenhouses. During the summer when the pineapple sage is actively growing, we do harvest just the leaves, but the flowers have a lot of flavor, so we harvest full stalks in the late fall so we can include the flowers in our products.
Great video. Got some tree huggers in the comments. Im growing one and assumed it was some hybrid. That's awesome its native to central America. I tell ya, these people crying about pollinators. We have some real wimps in the world right now. 😊
I never cut down my pineapple sage when it's flowering, what a waste...pollinators love them and you are depriving them of a food source. just cut them down when the flowers are spent. you can also just cut the leaves and use those.
We have 36 acres of land, much of which is wild, and full of flowering plants - we love our pollinators! In Michigan where we are, our pineapple sage flowers late in the fall, usually after frost, when most pollinators are already ready for winter and have stocked their stores with honey made from other native flowering plants. The only reason it flowers (and makes it through the winter) is because we grow it in greenhouses. During the summer when the pineapple sage is actively growing, we do harvest just the leaves, but the flowers have a lot of flavor, so we harvest full stalks in the late fall so we can include the flowers in our products.
It's hard for me to watch that ..... pollinators could have used those.
Are you a bee?