All About Growing Echinacea | Ask This Old House

In this video, Ask This Old House landscape contractor Jenn Nawada explains how to identify and care for echinaceas and shares a variety of ways to incorporate them in a garden. SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: http://bit.ly/SubscribeThisOldHouse. This Old House landscape contractor, Jenn Nawada explains how to identify echinaceas and gives a general overview of the perennial. Jenn also demonstrates how to take care of and maintain the plant. Echinaceas are popular for a reason, and Jenn shares why they are a great plant for even the inexperienced gardener. Skill Level: Beginner What is Echinacea? Echinaceas are a full sun plant that can be grown in zones 3-8, which is almost everywhere in the continental United States. Echinaceas are drought-tolerant, have long bloom times throughout the summer, attractive to pollinators, and have the ability to reseed themselves. How to Maintain Echinaceas 1. Each plant has multiple blooms. Jenn recommends deadheading them around midsummer. 2. To deadhead, wait until the flower is fading out of bloom. Then, take bypass pruners and look at the spent flower. Follow down to where you see the fresh set of blooms, and make the cut right above that. 3. There’s no set time to divide the plant, just do it whenever it outgrows the space. To divide, carefully dig up around the plant with a shovel. Take the shovel and create a clean cut at the roots. 4. Plant to a new hole. Where to find it? Jenn discussed a variety of echinaceas [https://ift.tt/3b61JPM], which can be found at most home centers and nurseries. Expert assistance with this segment was provided by Stonegate Gardens [https://ift.tt/3aBkSIh]. Looking for more step by step guidance on how to complete projects around the house? Join This Old House Insider to stream over 1,000 episodes commercial-free: https://bit.ly/2GPiYbH Plus, download our FREE app for full-episode streaming to your connected TV, phone or tablet: https://ift.tt/3jclZ3N About Ask This Old House TV: From the makers of This Old House, America’s first and most trusted home improvement show, Ask This Old House answers the steady stream of home improvement questions asked by viewers across the United States. Covering topics from landscaping to electrical to HVAC and plumbing to painting and more. Ask This Old House features the experts from This Old House, including general contractor Tom Silva, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, landscape contractor Jenn Nawada, master carpenter Norm Abram, and host Kevin O’Connor. Ask This Old House helps you protect and preserve your greatest investment—your home. Follow This Old House and Ask This Old House: Facebook: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseFB Twitter: http://bit.ly/AskTOHTwitter Pinterest: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHousePinterest Instagram: http://bit.ly/AskTOHIG All About Growing Echinacea | Ask This Old House https://www.youtube.com/user/thisoldhouse/