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Joylynn Hardesty

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I have tried multiple times to grow Echinacea. Here is my very first bloom!!! Yes. Second year plant. With more flower buds and 3 additional plants working on their courage to flower. Woo hoo!

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Anne Miller

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Echinacea is one of the prettiest plants that have medicinal value.

I grew it one years.

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Nice!

I have planted a number of plants last year as well, but they all died (or so i thought). They came back quite early and are also starting to flower now.

Matt Todd

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Congrats! Now watch out. Nobody warned me sufficiently that this stuff can SPREAD. Or so it has here in Missouri. More than I ever thought possible. I have to thin it out in some of my plantings.

I don't own the plants, they own me.

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that's great Joylynn!!!
are they from seed or divisions?

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Wooo hooo, indeed!
Congratulations - those plants that we grow from seed are the most special and meaningful, aren't they?
Thanks for sharing your picture - glad to have the inspiration for the day.

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Congratulations, Joylynn!!

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Joylynn Hardesty

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Matt Todd wrote:Congrats! Now watch out. Nobody warned me sufficiently that this stuff can SPREAD. Or so it has here in Missouri. More than I ever thought possible. I have to thin it out in some of my plantings.

Oooh! One can only hope! Because, medicine!!! Do you find that it self seeds? Does it also create more plants by root division?

EDIT: Reread Judiths question, apparently root division does work.

These are from seed. One of the reasons I kept trying is its' use for snakebites. You can read about that in this thread. And there is a YouTube by Doc Jones that includes it in this thread. And this thread by Judson.

We have a pond, wild spots, and cottonmouth and copperhead are seen several times each year. We also have a rattlesnake native to our region, but apparently it hides better. Living in the south, we've all been bitten by brown recluse spiders, but we've treated that in the past with plantation and comfrey salve. Watched for growing black areas, but they never developed. Just saw a horrible pic of a bad infection today. Holy crap.

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Jean Rudd

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Congratulations! I love my echinacea. I started with 2 transplants and now I give away divisions every year after I find some good roots for the medicine. It loves it here in Colorado. I'm pretty sure my 2 patches are spreading from seeds that fall from the flower heads which I leave up all winter because the birds love them. Last year I made the seeds into Fukuoka seed balls, but I haven't seen if they worked yet. Enjoy your coneflowers!

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Congrats! Fair warning - once it's happy it really does spread, especially by seed. I've had plants pop up 3 metres from the original patch. Leave the seed heads up over winter and you'll get a nice little colony going.

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