My mother loved flowers. Her flower beds were her therapy. She grew up in the poverty of the Great Depression, and also endured the uncertainties and hardships of WWII. She provided flowers for our church, each Sunday, for ten years. She donated flowers for weddings and shared starts of plants all of my growing up years. She said she worked out many of life’s hardships in God’s good earth. She never had what most people would consider to be riches, but her flowers were glorious. We had bouquets from “her yard” in our house, every season of the year. If any of us were sick, we had “a little something from the yard” in our room. She is in heaven now, and I am an old lady who loves flowers. Her gift of love for flowers has brightened my days for many years now. A man once told me that he didn’t grow anything that he couldn’t eat. Well, as you are saying here, Heidi, some plants feed our bodies, some plants nourish or heal our bodies and are beautiful too, and some plants just feed our souls. They all give us a window into the marvelous creativity and wisdom of our Great Creator God, however there are times when the greatest need is food for the soul! Rejoice!
Thank you for a great video! Think about how great a God we serve; He has given us such beauty in flowers AND also made them a food & medicine source for us!! Aren't we BLESSED!!?
I really needed this, thank you. I have gotten so many seeds from you and am enjoying watching them grow. Thank you for your wisdom. God bless you. Oh and I keep watching your videos because you always start with God is good! All the time!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Day lilies... Never knew you could eat them🥰. I agree with All the garbage of the world we Definitely need something that brings Joy into our lives. Thank you for reminding me of Doug and Stacey video on their cat!! Everyone stay safe and God Bless you and your family from middle GA 🙏 Kendra
I am so absorbed with your wealth of information that I didn't notice the wardrobe change. I love the tie down top. After your comment about clothing change I decided to cut one of my favorite tops and make it a tie down. I rarely wear the top due to it being so difficult to put on. Now back to your video, a year ago, or two, I purchased seeds for many of the flowers that you recommend. With exception to the Marshmallows, all the plants are doing extremely well. THANK YOU dear Heidi and God Bless your precious spirit.
I had to look again to see what you were referring to, that was just a simple V neck tank I had bought but it ended up being too low cut so I simply punched holes along the side of the V and crocheted a tie to lace through it so I could make it more modest. I have done this with a couple of shirts
I want to thank you Heidi. I hate to admit it but I have learned so much watching your channel. Much of it was things I never realized that I needed to know. lol Phil
Hello Rain 🌧 County this is a very important video for learning purposes and informative I love learning about flowers the ones you can eat and the medicinal purposes of them I’m getting my Collection of flowers together now Thank for sharing your video with us
Thank you Heidi!🙂 I planted bachelor buttons in one of beds in the front right by the mailbox just because I love them. I'm hoping they'll profusely reseed so I'll have enough to cut. The bees are loving the bee balm and borage!😀 Blessings and hugs! 💜🤗
I love your channel! You are so informative and helpful! And you present things in such a way that is easy to understand, as well as inspiring! I wish you enough! Godspeed!
I started to plant flowers again a few years ago, because we need food for the soul. They are beautiful to look at, they attract bees, many are medicinal and or edible, and others help the soil. I like using alyssum as a living mulch, especially with strawberries. I plant marigolds in the vegetable rows for fighting nematodes. This year I am tossing the spent flowers with their seeds on the ground under our fruit trees. I am hoping they will grow and turn into a naturalized flower patch. I have a huge clump of daisis growing in one of oir vegetable patches and am leaving it there this year. It always brings joy to anyone who sees it. I will divide it up this winter and plant it in different spots.
I started researching edible flowers after watching one of your other videos. I can't wait to get my lot cleared and stay building so I can start my gardens. Oh, and I love how you change clothes during the video. 😂 Thanks for all the work and info you put into your videos. 🥰
Hi Heidi, while this isnt a flower it is a beautiful shrub with gorgeous, bright red berries. Commonly known as soapberries or buffalo berries, Shepherdia canadensis are very, very medicinal. They like acidic soil and i find them wherever i find blueberries. Soapberries are extremely high in vitamin c and iron. Used to treat the flu, indigestion, arthritis, to bring on childbirth, the list goes on. Externally used to treat acne, boils, skin cleanser, shampoo, dandruff, laundry soap, etc. The bark and leaves are made into tea to help myriad ailments. Also, Indian ice cream is delicious!!! Made with the berries, water and sugar then whipped into a pink foam. Caution though...too much consumption at once of the berries can cause diarrhea, vomiting and cramps. That aside, it is a wonderful plant!
I've been traveling, but deep down I missed being home and watching your show!!! So blessed to have this connection to learn from you!! Sending you so much appreciation!!!!
I agree with it all,,,I just love all my flowers, even cut all my herbs and things like comphrey back three times, I try to help the bees as much as possible
Thank you for this nice video, you are right, flowers also bring joy, but also the other little things in the garden, the bees, the birds looking for food. I like it at the end of the video that you add a text from the Bible. I have been living in a new place for almost two years now and allow a lot of what nature produces, a lot turns out to be useful after research. As food, medicinal, for soap making or cleaning agent, so beautiful God's creation.
I was like you when I first began gardening, I said 'only edibles!'. Later, I found that many flowers are edible, so I included some of those. Later, I got serious about herbalism and added even more flowers/herbs to my list. I love attracting pollinators, too. We buy local honey and I like to think that I'm contributing to feeding the local bees. Great video! God bless.
I love your herb classes! Fuschia is my favorite flower, but we have a hard time growing it in Florida, but I buy them every so often and try again. I haven't seen any in my local nurseries in a few years. Mike drew up plans for a greenhouse, so that is next on our list. Meanwhile, I am ordering more medicinal herb seeds, I have a few, but really want some more. Also, on another note- I started my first batch of honey mead this morning, and added freeze dried mango. We'll see how that turns out. It does look pretty though, a nice yellow amber color. Once again, thank you Heidi for everything you post!
Years ago I purchased several packs of seeds that were a wildflower mix, I wanted a variety of flowers just for the beauty. There was 1 flower in particular that I loved but could never find out what it was called. Even buying more packs from the same company that flower wasn't in it. Yes,I know that whatever seeds they happen to have left over they usually mix together to sell as whatever mixture, anyway, Until I started watching your videos I couldn't find what the flowers were called. Now thanks to you and your seed gathering and Etsy store I was able to grow Amaranth again. I saved the seeds and will continue to enjoy these flowers
Heidi, Another great video!! you always have wonderful ideas, and beauty before my eyes. Like you I grow a lot of flowers as well; but we are so far behind with our gardens this year, we have Red bee balm, Lilies, Shasta Daisy, Borage, Sunflowers, Calendula, Hibiscus, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Hollyhocks, Lilac, Peonies, Bleeding hearts, Clematis, Catnip, Iris, German Camomile flowers, Yarrow, Red poppies, Marshmallow, Foxgloves, and I know I am missing other flower as well. I am going to try Chicory, Italian Dandelion, Milkweed, I am next year going to grow Asters, Bachelor's Buttons, Viola, St Johns Wort, Wildflowers Meadow, Zinnias, Delphiniums, English Lavender, Cosmos, Dahlias. Thank you Heidi, for another wonderful video
Great video, Heidi! May I recommend a couple of books? Bringing Nature Home and Nature's Best Hope, both by Doug Tallamy, explain the importance of planting native trees and flowers in your yard. Flowers are not only beautiful and medicinal but vital to the survival of all pollinators. Thanks for reminding us of the importance of flowers. 😊
so much beauty!!! My anise hyssop disappeared under all the wildly spreading lemon balm, then again it may pop up yet. I love the taste! My amaranth leaves have attackers!!! I think it is the cucumber beetles at least they look like it. I eat them any way. I added another treasure to my collection today, got rose of sharon - traded for hydrangea. Fuchsia was one of my dad's favorite! I need to look up dahlias, I know the tubers are edible, and do I have the tubers after finally splitting my huge clump.
The weird thing is my Anise Hyssop is usually one of the last herbs to start appearing but this year it popped up quickly. I was surprised but also happy. Hoping I get enough flowers again to offer seed this year like I did two years ago
I only discovered cat mint last year while being in the spring flowers display area of one of my local parks, I thought it looked like mint so I rubbed the leaves (as I do) and I fell in love with the scent. This spring I was reminded of this plant that looked like a cross between lavendar and mint and only through searching for "varieties of mint", because the plant that I saw looked nothing like the "lavender mint" I had searched for, I found that it was cat mint (more flowers than catnip), now I'm propagating my own. I love that the bees love the flowers, the scent is gorgeous and there are medicinal benefits which I still need to learn about, but the scent alone is my number one reason.
My Urologist recommended that I go to Amazon and get Marshmallow capsules and I take one daily for urinary health. This was before I knew anything about it. When she suggested it, I pictured a big fluffy marshmallow but didn’t say anything and just went to Amazon and ordered it. You were the first one I heard about it from after that.
And if you try to research images of marshmallow plant, you will get a lot of silliness where people put a bunch of marshmallow confectionary treats on a bush or tree! haha
Day lilies are my favorite flower and I have a beautiful plant, but my husband is highly allergic to them so I have to enjoy them from afar, no bouquet inside. Great info, thanks for sharing, blessings
When I travelled..looked for botanical gardens and what was grown and where. Stayed at the bellagio hotel in Las Vegas around 2012. They had an indoor botanical garden…just beautiful with plants forming into patterns, framed wall art with live plants. Next morning…strolled through with a cup of coffee in hand at about 5am…nobody around. Saw a big flat cart like they have at Sam’s club bringing in new plants in black plastic containers…they were changing out anything that look wilted or had lost its flowers. What fakery. That’s not a botanical garden. They hid the fact that the plants were in containers and changed up. The plants were nestled close together so the foliage hid the deception. The things we call weeds or flowers…unbelievable the benefits we can get from them. So glad you are presenting this. This is healing..not a prescription for forever medicine dictated by the medical community. Knew of someone prescribed 56 medications…some once a day, others three times per day, something at bedtime. Some were duplicates under a different name. The person had no appetite…go figure. Two doctors who did not communicate. Person getting sicker and depressed. Meanwhile, doctors are saying what is needed. I, the head honcho now prescribe this and and I last honcho stick with what I have prescribed. What is needed is you get a brain…going to prescribe this to you aging parent? Your youngsters? Take the “remedy” yourself?
56?! Wow, that is worse than my mother, I do not recall how many they had her on before she passed away, I know it was a lot but not hat much. How do some people even survive a year on all that poison?!
Hi I'm a newer subscriber and have watched several of your videos and I'm trying to watch some of your older ones too enjoying all of them thank you. I am in Ohio Central Ohio and a lot of the plants you grow are similar to mine that I can grow and was just wanting to know a general area that you lived in. Thank you I'm not to be nosy
Our nasturtiums (flowers and leaves) grew SO spicy this year, hotter than our horseradish leaves. Even Mr Rosehaven doesn't want to eat them, too hot. I have no idea what happened, though when they were small it was dry and hot. But, they are spectacularly beautiful! Edit: my late father would say, "can't eat 'em, don't grow 'em." I always replied, "you need to feed the soul, too, Pop."
I noticed mine are spicier than usual as well, odd. I still love them. I have been trying to eat a fresh leaf every hour for the past two days. I suspect I may have an infection in my sinuses so trying to clear it up. Seems to be doing better so far but I will keep at it and see.
You live in W WA I am pretty sure it's law you are required to have at least one rhodie... I had several edible flowers on my farm but never ate them. They were there for their beauty = enhanced quality of life.
California poppy. The first flower is losing its shuck today. The plants will keep putting out flowers until frost kills them in the fall. Food forest - a garden disguised as a forest!
Great topic. Need to get my nasturtiums started this year - can't find any at plant shops. Have the sunflowers and sunchokes(Jerusalem) started. Oh, my that gate is just perfect!!! My chickens love Amaranth - took them a while to try them, but now, they clean it right up and it spreads and reseeds itself ALL OVER THE PLACE as do many of these. Being on a farm, these plants/flowers actually attract some wild birds and creatures (some of which I do not want. Have you got an herb cabinet for any health needs?
@@RainCountryHomestead Probably the best. My cabinet is loaded to the top with the books and articles on using the herbs :-) I have been using an herbalist in ID named Doc Jones (vet) and he has literally kept my German Shepherd alive and added my kefir at home to her diet and she was great. I have his kits for emergencies: i.e. snake bite kit And, I use Native Remedies only the ones with water extraction or the homeopathic ones and have great success with them
This is by far my favorite of all your videos to date. Thank you for providing your viewers with a dose of beauty and cheer today as well as very practical advice. I've been on the hunt for arnica and had no idea it was a flower. Do you have any seeds to sell? It is the most effective thing for my arthritis. I take arnica tablets but would love to grow it.
I only just started growing it last year and did not get any seeds then. I hope to this year when I am done drying up the amount of flowers I would like to put up for this year. If I do get seeds, they will be ready in the fall, possibly sooner
There are many great books out there but you can also find lists online by doing a search in your browser. Especially if you are wanting to look up a specific one. Use terms such as "List of edible flowers" or "Are fuchsias edible?"
I have a natural bug spray but as I said in the video, you could simply make a catnip tea and then use it as a spray. Here is my old bug spray recipe: th-cam.com/video/6xDICEWqARg/w-d-xo.html
I use them for seed starts. Cut the top 1/2 off, turn it upside down place in the bottom half, fill it with potting soil making sure it touches the bottom half. Plant. Great for slips and cuttings. To water pour water into the bottom, always remove the top half to refill. You can spray water on top half to keep capillary action moving.🙂👍
@@loboalamo I was referring to the plastic part that holds them together kinda like the handle I guess you'd say.... but Thank you for that idea I'll have to remember that
If you’re taking about the plastic rings that hold the cans together, the first thing that comes to mind is a scarf hanger. If you have dozens of them, I suppose you could find a way to link them together to create a makeshift trellis for pole beans or other lightweight vining plant.
Good Morning. I have feverfew growing for the first time this year. Its starting to get its flowers. When do I harvest the plant? I think I read don't harvest it until it started flowering. Do you only harvest the leaves or do you also harvest the flowers? I just don't want to ruin the plant or hurt it. Thank you for any help.
No matter where we live, there will always be challenges. I have found I could grow far more things in our cold wet climate than I would have guessed but there are other things that I cannot grow well or at all that people in drier climates can. It is a matter of finding what you can grow there
@@RainCountryHomestead I also have a garden that is fenced and chicken wire. And I found a squirrel and a ground hog eating. We're going to have to put a top on it. We will get it I hope.
My mother loved flowers. Her flower beds were her therapy. She grew up in the poverty of the Great Depression, and also endured the uncertainties and hardships of WWII. She provided flowers for our church, each Sunday, for ten years. She donated flowers for weddings and shared starts of plants all of my growing up years. She said she worked out many of life’s hardships in God’s good earth. She never had what most people would consider to be riches, but her flowers were glorious. We had bouquets from “her yard” in our house, every season of the year.
If any of us were sick, we had “a little something from the yard” in our room. She is in heaven now, and I am an old lady who loves flowers. Her gift of love for flowers has brightened my days for many years now. A man once told me that he didn’t grow anything that he couldn’t eat. Well, as you are saying here, Heidi, some plants feed our bodies, some plants nourish or heal our bodies and are beautiful too, and some plants just feed our souls. They all give us a window into the marvelous creativity and wisdom of our Great Creator God, however there are times when the greatest need is food for the soul! Rejoice!
Thank you for a great video! Think about how great a God we serve; He has given us such beauty in flowers AND also made them a food & medicine source for us!! Aren't we BLESSED!!?
Yes! thank you for saying this.
I really needed this, thank you. I have gotten so many seeds from you and am enjoying watching them grow. Thank you for your wisdom. God bless you.
Oh and I keep watching your videos because you always start with God is good! All the time!
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you!
👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Day lilies... Never knew you could eat them🥰. I agree with All the garbage of the world we Definitely need something that brings Joy into our lives. Thank you for reminding me of Doug and Stacey video on their cat!! Everyone stay safe and God Bless you and your family from middle GA 🙏 Kendra
Wow! Watch, pause, write, repeat. Now I just need to find the seeds, rhizome, etc. Great additions to any food forest! Blessings and Thank you!
I am so absorbed with your wealth of information that I didn't notice the wardrobe change. I love the tie down top. After your comment about clothing change I decided to cut one of my favorite tops and make it a tie down. I rarely wear the top due to it being so difficult to put on.
Now back to your video, a year ago, or two, I purchased seeds for many of the flowers that you recommend. With exception to the Marshmallows, all the plants are doing extremely well. THANK YOU dear Heidi and God Bless your precious spirit.
I had to look again to see what you were referring to, that was just a simple V neck tank I had bought but it ended up being too low cut so I simply punched holes along the side of the V and crocheted a tie to lace through it so I could make it more modest. I have done this with a couple of shirts
I want to thank you Heidi. I hate to admit it but I have learned so much watching your channel. Much of it was things I never realized that I needed to know. lol Phil
Thanks Phil!
Love your videos!!! Many blessings always.
Hello Rain 🌧 County this is a very important video for learning purposes and informative I love learning about flowers the ones you can eat and the medicinal purposes of them I’m getting my Collection of flowers together now
Thank for sharing your video with us
Thank you Heidi!🙂
I planted bachelor buttons in one of beds in the front right by the mailbox just because I love them. I'm hoping they'll profusely reseed so I'll have enough to cut.
The bees are loving the bee balm and borage!😀
Blessings and hugs! 💜🤗
I love your channel! You are so informative and helpful! And you present things in such a way that is easy to understand, as well as inspiring!
I wish you enough!
Godspeed!
I started to plant flowers again a few years ago, because we need food for the soul. They are beautiful to look at, they attract bees, many are medicinal and or edible, and others help the soil. I like using alyssum as a living mulch, especially with strawberries. I plant marigolds in the vegetable rows for fighting nematodes. This year I am tossing the spent flowers with their seeds on the ground under our fruit trees. I am hoping they will grow and turn into a naturalized flower patch. I have a huge clump of daisis growing in one of oir vegetable patches and am leaving it there this year. It always brings joy to anyone who sees it. I will divide it up this winter and plant it in different spots.
I started researching edible flowers after watching one of your other videos. I can't wait to get my lot cleared and stay building so I can start my gardens. Oh, and I love how you change clothes during the video. 😂 Thanks for all the work and info you put into your videos. 🥰
Hi Heidi, while this isnt a flower it is a beautiful shrub with gorgeous, bright red berries. Commonly known as soapberries or buffalo berries, Shepherdia canadensis are very, very medicinal. They like acidic soil and i find them wherever i find blueberries. Soapberries are extremely high in vitamin c and iron. Used to treat the flu, indigestion, arthritis, to bring on childbirth, the list goes on. Externally used to treat acne, boils, skin cleanser, shampoo, dandruff, laundry soap, etc. The bark and leaves are made into tea to help myriad ailments. Also, Indian ice cream is delicious!!! Made with the berries, water and sugar then whipped into a pink foam. Caution though...too much consumption at once of the berries can cause diarrhea, vomiting and cramps. That aside, it is a wonderful plant!
Thanks Heidi for a very lovely( and colorful) video. 💕from Ky.
You look like a flower, love the colors in the hair ribbon. Thanks for this info on benefits of flowers.
I've been traveling, but deep down I missed being home and watching your show!!! So blessed to have this connection to learn from you!! Sending you so much appreciation!!!!
I agree with it all,,,I just love all my flowers, even cut all my herbs and things like comphrey back three times, I try to help the bees as much as possible
That's a great idea1 I have one hive and this would help them, cheers
Merci beaucoup !! Excellent comme toujours ! Blessings +++!!!
YES YES YES! Heidi, we love you guys out here in Minneeee-sota! :) Dawn @ Rich & Dawn in MN :) Blessings!
Mt joy today was that I am cleaning up pots from last season. I was shocked that one of my pots has tiny peppermint plants!
Great information!
Love your channel Sister!
Thank you for this nice video, you are right, flowers also bring joy, but also the other little things in the garden, the bees, the birds looking for food. I like it at the end of the video that you add a text from the Bible. I have been living in a new place for almost two years now and allow a lot of what nature produces, a lot turns out to be useful after research. As food, medicinal, for soap making or cleaning agent, so beautiful God's creation.
I was like you when I first began gardening, I said 'only edibles!'. Later, I found that many flowers are edible, so I included some of those. Later, I got serious about herbalism and added even more flowers/herbs to my list. I love attracting pollinators, too. We buy local honey and I like to think that I'm contributing to feeding the local bees. Great video! God bless.
I love your herb classes! Fuschia is my favorite flower, but we have a hard time growing it in Florida, but I buy them every so often and try again. I haven't seen any in my local nurseries in a few years. Mike drew up plans for a greenhouse, so that is next on our list. Meanwhile, I am ordering more medicinal herb seeds, I have a few, but really want some more. Also, on another note- I started my first batch of honey mead this morning, and added freeze dried mango. We'll see how that turns out. It does look pretty though, a nice yellow amber color. Once again, thank you Heidi for everything you post!
Years ago I purchased several packs of seeds that were a wildflower mix, I wanted a variety of flowers just for the beauty.
There was 1 flower in particular that I loved but could never find out what it was called. Even buying more packs from the same company that flower wasn't in it. Yes,I know that whatever seeds they happen to have left over they usually mix together to sell as whatever mixture, anyway,
Until I started watching your videos I couldn't find what the flowers were called.
Now thanks to you and your seed gathering and Etsy store I was able to grow Amaranth again.
I saved the seeds and will continue to enjoy these flowers
Hi Heidi, Canna lilies work great for wrapping & steaming tamales.
I meant to say the leaves of the Canna lilies are great to wrap...
Thank you ❤️
Heidi, Another great video!! you always have wonderful ideas, and beauty before my eyes. Like you I grow a lot of flowers as well; but we are so far behind with our gardens this year, we have Red bee balm, Lilies, Shasta Daisy, Borage, Sunflowers, Calendula, Hibiscus, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Hollyhocks, Lilac, Peonies, Bleeding hearts, Clematis, Catnip, Iris, German Camomile flowers, Yarrow, Red poppies, Marshmallow, Foxgloves, and I know I am missing other flower as well. I am going to try Chicory, Italian Dandelion, Milkweed, I am next year going to grow Asters, Bachelor's Buttons, Viola, St Johns Wort, Wildflowers Meadow, Zinnias, Delphiniums, English Lavender, Cosmos, Dahlias. Thank you Heidi, for another wonderful video
thank you, great video! I grew borage this year for the first time.
Great video, Heidi!
May I recommend a couple of books?
Bringing Nature Home and Nature's Best Hope, both by Doug Tallamy, explain the importance of planting native trees and flowers in your yard.
Flowers are not only beautiful and medicinal but vital to the survival of all pollinators.
Thanks for reminding us of the importance of flowers. 😊
Your video was wonderful! Thank you.
Thank, great info as always.
Day lilies! Never thought to eat them.
I grow my flowers for the beauty, pollinators and mostly medicinal properties
Brilliant. I was contemplating purchasing day lilies.
This video gave me the push I needed.
Amaranth is also known a callaloo in the Caribbean.
Pretty much a daily food there or once a week for those of us living here in UK.
so much beauty!!! My anise hyssop disappeared under all the wildly spreading lemon balm, then again it may pop up yet. I love the taste! My amaranth leaves have attackers!!! I think it is the cucumber beetles at least they look like it. I eat them any way. I added another treasure to my collection today, got rose of sharon - traded for hydrangea. Fuchsia was one of my dad's favorite! I need to look up dahlias, I know the tubers are edible, and do I have the tubers after finally splitting my huge clump.
The weird thing is my Anise Hyssop is usually one of the last herbs to start appearing but this year it popped up quickly. I was surprised but also happy. Hoping I get enough flowers again to offer seed this year like I did two years ago
I only discovered cat mint last year while being in the spring flowers display area of one of my local parks, I thought it looked like mint so I rubbed the leaves (as I do) and I fell in love with the scent. This spring I was reminded of this plant that looked like a cross between lavendar and mint and only through searching for "varieties of mint", because the plant that I saw looked nothing like the "lavender mint" I had searched for, I found that it was cat mint (more flowers than catnip), now I'm propagating my own. I love that the bees love the flowers, the scent is gorgeous and there are medicinal benefits which I still need to learn about, but the scent alone is my number one reason.
Food for the soul is still food.
Whether edible or not, flowers are good for the soul!
Two that I like to add are bee balm (for pollinators) and comfrey. Bees here LOVE comfrey
Fuchsia are shade only.
yes
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My Urologist recommended that I go to Amazon and get Marshmallow capsules and I take one daily for urinary health. This was before I knew anything about it. When she suggested it, I pictured a big fluffy marshmallow but didn’t say anything and just went to Amazon and ordered it. You were the first one I heard about it from after that.
And if you try to research images of marshmallow plant, you will get a lot of silliness where people put a bunch of marshmallow confectionary treats on a bush or tree! haha
Day lilies are my favorite flower and I have a beautiful plant, but my husband is highly allergic to them so I have to enjoy them from afar, no bouquet inside. Great info, thanks for sharing, blessings
Well that is a bummer but at least you can still enjoy their beauty
@@RainCountryHomestead yes and I go out to smell their wonderful fragrance
When I travelled..looked for botanical gardens and what was grown and where. Stayed at the bellagio hotel in Las Vegas around 2012. They had an indoor botanical garden…just beautiful with plants forming into patterns, framed wall art with live plants. Next morning…strolled through with a cup of coffee in hand at about 5am…nobody around. Saw a big flat cart like they have at Sam’s club bringing in new plants in black plastic containers…they were changing out anything that look wilted or had lost its flowers. What fakery. That’s not a botanical garden. They hid the fact that the plants were in containers and changed up. The plants were nestled close together so the foliage hid the deception. The things we call weeds or flowers…unbelievable the benefits we can get from them. So glad you are presenting this. This is healing..not a prescription for forever medicine dictated by the medical community. Knew of someone prescribed 56 medications…some once a day, others three times per day, something at bedtime. Some were duplicates under a different name. The person had no appetite…go figure. Two doctors who did not communicate. Person getting sicker and depressed. Meanwhile, doctors are saying what is needed. I, the head honcho now prescribe this and and I last honcho stick with what I have prescribed. What is needed is you get a brain…going to prescribe this to you aging parent? Your youngsters? Take the “remedy” yourself?
56?! Wow, that is worse than my mother, I do not recall how many they had her on before she passed away, I know it was a lot but not hat much. How do some people even survive a year on all that poison?!
Hi I'm a newer subscriber and have watched several of your videos and I'm trying to watch some of your older ones too enjoying all of them thank you. I am in Ohio Central Ohio and a lot of the plants you grow are similar to mine that I can grow and was just wanting to know a general area that you lived in. Thank you I'm not to be nosy
The wet side of Washington state
Our nasturtiums (flowers and leaves) grew SO spicy this year, hotter than our horseradish leaves. Even Mr Rosehaven doesn't want to eat them, too hot. I have no idea what happened, though when they were small it was dry and hot. But, they are spectacularly beautiful!
Edit: my late father would say, "can't eat 'em, don't grow 'em." I always replied, "you need to feed the soul, too, Pop."
I noticed mine are spicier than usual as well, odd. I still love them. I have been trying to eat a fresh leaf every hour for the past two days. I suspect I may have an infection in my sinuses so trying to clear it up. Seems to be doing better so far but I will keep at it and see.
You live in W WA I am pretty sure it's law you are required to have at least one rhodie... I had several edible flowers on my farm but never ate them. They were there for their beauty = enhanced quality of life.
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California poppy. The first flower is losing its shuck today. The plants will keep putting out flowers until frost kills them in the fall.
Food forest - a garden disguised as a forest!
Lemon queen sunflowers support monarch butterflies
Great topic. Need to get my nasturtiums started this year - can't find any at plant shops. Have the sunflowers and sunchokes(Jerusalem) started. Oh, my that gate is just perfect!!! My chickens love Amaranth - took them a while to try them, but now, they clean it right up and it spreads and reseeds itself ALL OVER THE PLACE as do many of these.
Being on a farm, these plants/flowers actually attract some wild birds and creatures (some of which I do not want.
Have you got an herb cabinet for any health needs?
I keep all my herbs in our main pantry. While they have their own dedicated shelves, I do not have a specific cabinet just for them.
@@RainCountryHomestead Probably the best. My cabinet is loaded to the top with the books and articles on using the herbs :-)
I have been using an herbalist in ID named Doc Jones (vet) and he has literally kept my German Shepherd alive and added my kefir at home to her diet and she was great. I have his kits for emergencies: i.e. snake bite kit
And, I use Native Remedies only the ones with water extraction or the homeopathic ones and have great success with them
This is by far my favorite of all your videos to date. Thank you for providing your viewers with a dose of beauty and cheer today as well as very practical advice. I've been on the hunt for arnica and had no idea it was a flower. Do you have any seeds to sell? It is the most effective thing for my arthritis. I take arnica tablets but would love to grow it.
I only just started growing it last year and did not get any seeds then. I hope to this year when I am done drying up the amount of flowers I would like to put up for this year. If I do get seeds, they will be ready in the fall, possibly sooner
@@RainCountryHomestead TY Heidi!
Rose of. Sharon
Yep, I thought of mentioning that too but as I said, the list of edible flowers is much longer than what I mentioned here
@@RainCountryHomestead oh yes it is just trying to help. Thanks for the video.
Do you have a good book recommendation about edible flowers that lists all parts that are edible?
There are many great books out there but you can also find lists online by doing a search in your browser. Especially if you are wanting to look up a specific one. Use terms such as "List of edible flowers" or "Are fuchsias edible?"
I guess amaranth can be popped like pop corn and eaten that way too even though it's smaller than pop corn.
Yep, I have heard that but have not bothered to try it
Algorithm comment! I just got interrupted so I must get to some other chores🙂😍
Do you have natural mosquito repellent recipe?
I have a natural bug spray but as I said in the video, you could simply make a catnip tea and then use it as a spray.
Here is my old bug spray recipe: th-cam.com/video/6xDICEWqARg/w-d-xo.html
Completely off subject... But does anyone have any ideas how to recycle/reuse the plastic tops from 6packs of soda's?? Thanks in advance 🤗
I know I have seen various ideas but now none of them come to mind! haha
I use them for seed starts. Cut the top 1/2 off, turn it upside down place in the bottom half, fill it with potting soil making sure it touches the bottom half. Plant. Great for slips and cuttings. To water pour water into the bottom, always remove the top half to refill. You can spray water on top half to keep capillary action moving.🙂👍
@@loboalamo I was referring to the plastic part that holds them together kinda like the handle I guess you'd say.... but Thank you for that idea I'll have to remember that
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If you’re taking about the plastic rings that hold the cans together, the first thing that comes to mind is a scarf hanger. If you have dozens of them, I suppose you could find a way to link them together to create a makeshift trellis for pole beans or other lightweight vining plant.
Good Morning. I have feverfew growing for the first time this year. Its starting to get its flowers. When do I harvest the plant? I think I read don't harvest it until it started flowering. Do you only harvest the leaves or do you also harvest the flowers? I just don't want to ruin the plant or hurt it. Thank you for any help.
The leaves are best harvested before they bloom but both leaves and flowers can be used at any time
i live in florida its so hard to grow anything here
No matter where we live, there will always be challenges. I have found I could grow far more things in our cold wet climate than I would have guessed but there are other things that I cannot grow well or at all that people in drier climates can. It is a matter of finding what you can grow there
I also love my flowers my problem is that the animals eat them. Deers and who ever out side like them. Any advice.? Thanks for the video.
If not fencing then grow them behind herbs that deter such animals like mints, garlic, and so on
@@RainCountryHomestead I also have a garden that is fenced and chicken wire. And I found a squirrel and a ground hog eating. We're going to have to put a top on it. We will get it I hope.
Deterring all animals.
Plant marigolds, verbenas all around them. We planted them through out our vegetable garden. And rosemary is very good for
The sunflower also absorbs radiation