Hoary Mountain Mint and Purple Coneflower // Native Plant Combos

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

I love how you leave rhe seedheads in for the winter!

[@awildapproach]

They are my no-work bird feeders!❤️

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Beautiful plants and butterflies!

[@awildapproach]

Thanks so much!🦋

[@Javaman92]

I've recently settled down here in Central NY and am excited to get started creating places for our native insects. Your garden is beautiful and quite an inspiration.

[@awildapproach]

Aww thank you so much for watching! Happy gardening!

[@bigtomatoplantslover6205]

Wow Wonderful flowers ~ Thank you for good sharing LIKE 32 My friend, have a good relationship 😊

[@CEGNatives]

Informative video. I have plenty of Purple Coneflower. My largest patch is between Jacob Cline Monarda and Blue Fortune Agastache. I think I will get some Hoary Mountain Mint to put with the Purple Coneflower I have in another area.

[@awildapproach]

I realized in 2023 that I need more purple coneflower. The swallowtails just love it so much, and I love seeing them visit the garden. So, I started some more coneflower plants indoors (they don't need stratification to germinate), and I can't wait until they are large enough to put out in the garden! As for hoary mountain mint: it's definitely one of my favorites now. I love silvery foliage and I love love the fragrance.

[@ThreeRunHomer]

Good choices. I have Tennessee coneflower next to mountain mint, but Tennessee coneflower isn’t as tall as purple coneflower so the combo doesn’t work quite as well.

[@awildapproach]

I've been in a "rearranging the garden" mood lately, and that sounds like a good spot to do a tiny bit of rearranging, if it's warm enough and not too wet at your place. I did some rearranging this past weekend, but now it's been raining here and is very wet, so I have to wait for it to dry a tad bit before I get back to it. Happy Gardening!

[@TheSuburbanGardenista]

Beautiful combo! Funny how hoary mountain mint can grow to be 6' yet it stays 2' in your gardens...perhaps I'll open my mind to larger plants if they can stay smaller with my conditions (which are usually drier and shadier than plants would like)

[@awildapproach]

In another bed, it gets almost 3 feet tall. I've not seen it grow over 3 feet in my garden (yet!). :)

[@TheSuburbanGardenista]

@@awildapproach interesting! Thank you for sharing! 💚

[@embrustzwei]

Awesome video, and even more awesome that you're also in Knoxville! I'm pretty new to native plant gardening and very excited about what's to come - maybe one day we can check out each other's gardens!

[@awildapproach]

Thank you so much for watching! Happy Gardening

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Our coneflower in the west is a Rudbeckia (occidentalis), waiting to see when mine will bloom, hopefully this year. Do you ever have any issues with animals eating your coneflower seedlings? Mine was almost completely eaten after I planted it last year, it managed to grow back but it didn't flower (maybe they don't flower their first year, I'm not sure).

[@awildapproach]

Not my coneflower, but my rudbeckia did get eat the first ones I planted! All the way to the ground by cut worms. My friend told me a very great tip. She said I should have let the seedling grow a little larger before planting it in my garden bed. Another thing you can try with cut worms is to put a toilet paper roll around the seedling into the dirt a little bit, but I do not know if it's affective or not. If a rabbit is eating your stuff, then try protecting the small plants with an upside down wire / mesh trash can from a dollar store, if you have access to those. The sun, air, and water still gets to your plants, but a rabbit cannot. Then, as the plant grows larger, remove the trash can. I have to weigh mine down with a brick or rock, so they don't blow over in the wind. Thanks so much for watching the video!

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

@@awildapproach I guess that's just a thing with Rudbeckias, thanks for the tips! I think in my yard it might have been a squirrel -- just because when it was eaten, it like straight up disappeared (no bite marks left, it was just seemingly gone, until it grew back of course. But I have seen cut worms -- mostly while I'm pulling up Eurasian weeds and grass -- luckily I don't seem to have a huge amount of them. Lots of slugs though.