How to Grow Beautiful Echinacea / Coneflowers

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Here is the video you have been waiting for! I've had many requests from viewers who want to grow this beautiful perennial plant in their own gardens. In this video, I will show you how I grow it. My instructional growing videos are very thorough - I don't walk outside with a transplant in hand and read to you what I found on the Farmer's Almanac website. LOL I will show you real footage from my home gardens, my experience growing a specific plant. I show you planting from seed, feeding, harvesting, problems I have had, and how I use it in the kitchen (if edible). You will not find another gardening / food channel who shows you the information you will find in my How to Grow videos. Check out my others here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsaXKBhzAk&list=PLHqRalqOVeFwPUrpUIOcTTqNbpp8djtwQ Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share if you enjoy this in-depth video. Happy Gardening!

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This flower can be a challenge to grow in the maritime Pacific NW. We get an awful lot of rain for 9 months and the plants can rot during the fall, winter, spring rainy season (yes all 3 months!). Great video! Best one so far on this plant.

wow! i love the place,your deck and the flowers. Well i`m just learning to grow Rudbeckia (cherry brandy & blacke-eyed susan). Thank you for the info.

Thank you so much for your help.

Lovely I just love flowers...

Your garden is beautiful. Has given me something to aspire to! I have bought some Echinacea Purpurea seeds and it's good to know that they might not flower the first year and then die back. I might have dug it over and planted something else. I definitely need to invest in some tags to put in the ground so I know where everything is!

Great video! Are you in Virginia? Love your accent:D

when should you plant seed out side

Isn't it fun getting root balls... it feels like free plants! We use Purpurea for Herbal Remedies as well as the pollinators. ~ If I may, suggest you plant Daikon in your clay soil. It will break it up then decompose. Allow the root to remain and snip the greens if you like.

Nices

Very informative, love your container garden very healthy looking plants and great view from your deck, that looks like a very nice part of the world!

Echinacea spp. is also an at-risk wild plant genus in its native region. By cultivating one's own Echinacea instead of buying the wild harvested medicinal roots one can contribute to not only preserving wild stands of the plant, but also its populations continue to grow. A little help goes a long way for the recovery of this species.

I live in Singapore and I think it grows best in SG cause it is always summer

Hi Donna, you seem to have had a lot of success with your echinacea. I've read in a few places to plant in them Fall, have you had any problems with planting in early spring?

I luv the coneflowers they're so pretty!

cool video :) thanks

My mom has grown some Echinacea flowers before but I did not know of their medicinal properties until I started taking a Horticulture class hahah. Thank you for the great video!~

Hi Donna. I do the same thing - plant now and research later. I planted echinacea this year, but there wasn't a lot of action - so now I know why. Thanks. Now I have it in the garden I have to investigate how to make the most of the medicinal properties, Cheers Sarah : o )

I just love Echinacea, one of my favorite flower, but then and again I say that about every flowers in my garden lol

Cool

3:55 what a great view. That bridge is incredible. I probably said that before but it's really out of a story book.