Echinacea Leaves- amazing plant

How good is this plant! Very interesting. What particular one is it? I would like to try growing it if possible.
Ive got a few herb plants Growing, ( not sure if your echinacea is a herb), lemon verbina and lemon balm being a few of them. In the summer I make herbal teas with them. Very refreshing.

Wonderful I am a great believer in alternative medicines I read the other day thousands each year die through taking pharmicuticle tablets on record yet no one dies though alternative medication like this.

Thanks its a very handy plant to have around. You can apply the sap to bug bites, bee stings, scrapes & minor burns. or just mash up some leaves in a cup, add teaspoon of honey & hot water - a nice tea.

This one is called "Eveniing Glow." It will have nice yellow/pink cone flowers late spring into summer.

Definitely a herb Maggie....a plant that is useful for culinary or medicinal purposes..roots, shoots, leaves or flowers. I knew it was medicinal...but didn't realise it had so many different uses. I'm trying to grow some this year, but they are so slow to get going here and almost always die over the winter.

Thrupennybit
It just goes to show you ah! Sometimes natural is best! Do you grow anything or have any recommendations?

Bathgate
I will look it up. If i can't grow it I may try to buy some dried leafs from amazon. I like herbal teas, and I find a really good honey is manuka honey, it's got a lot of antibacterial properties.

Karen.
Thanks.....if they die do they come back again or do you have to start all over with new plants. ( I'm guessing you buy them in plants and not grow them from seed).

Mag. I hope you can grow these. Nothing like going out and picking your own fresh leaves. You can be really inventive - add a mint leaf? Fennel? Thanks for the tip about the honey. I really appreciate it.

Yes Maggie I know loads sage mouth ulcers
http://grand-sehat.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/sweet-violet-fights-cancer.html?m=1
My sister use to buy these wild violet leaves now they have stopped selling them here perhaps the pharmaceuticle companies dont like it when some thing better works.

http://www.top10homeremedies.com/home-remedies/home-remedies-mouth-ulcers.html

Also check out Comfrey heals broken bones feeds your plants best picked before flowers come I used it in my allotment years ago. For feeding plants Pick leaves soak in water in a large container place lid leave for a month then dilute one part liquid Comfrey to ten parts water. Or chop leaves place around plants let the rain water them in .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfrey

Mildew or black spot on roses one part milk to ten parts water spray on affected leaves.

Thrupennybit
Your really are very good, thank you very much, I shall look those up. ? ???

Bathgate
You are very welcome, I hope I can grow them too, but time will tell on that. (Least I already have the mint growing) lol. ????

Maggie, I usually buy bare roots or young plants as they are more reasonably priced. my first year here I bought some lovely ones but none of them came back after the winter. I bought some little bare roots this year to try, but tbh I doubt they will be a success. They are hardening off at the moment in their pots.

Do you buy them online Karen? Also do you think I may have more luck growing them as I'm in Essex ( I'm guessing it may be a touch warmer). I'm probly wrong though. Lol.

Your welcome Maggie

Thrupennybit ???

Hi Maggie, yes, much warmer. They are easy to find in GCs. The ones I got this year were a GW mag. offer I think.

These plants are native to the open prairies. They are true wildflowers and don't want to be pampered or coddled too much. They like hot dry sunny conditions, lean loose soil, no fertilizer at all or much water.

Karen. I shall have a little look out for them in the garden centres then. Thank you ?

Bathgate. If I manage to get one I shall take good notice of what you say as I would very much like to get and successfully grow one to try the leaves in a drink! Thank you ?