SEED STORIES | Echinacea: A Long-Blooming Beauty

Echinacea is a perennial prairie flower with a long and colorful history in both the garden and the apothecary. Primarily native to the Eastern fields of North America, indigenous tribes prized it as an herbal medicinal for a wide range of ailments, including those related to the common cold. Beginning in the 1990s, a surge of interest in echinacea breeding has produced a dazzling array of new varieties that have more people growing this hardy perennial for its looks than its medicinal properties.
Varieties featured in this video: Echinacea purpurea, Echinacea pallida, Echinacea paradoxa, Double Decker echinacea, Paradiso Mix echinacea, Mellow Yellows echinacea, Green Twister echinacea.
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