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I have purple verbena come back from last year. I was pleased it made it the winter here. Very mild winter though. I called it lantana .
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My mom always asking me to pick her a mess of plantion and would show me what it looked like then I would go out to pick and there was 2 other things that looked just the same and I would give up. I wish you had been here to help. She never did get any. Something about a pointed tip vrs a rounded ? and broad leafed or slim ? Guess it dont matter now.
 
granny hatchet said:
I have purple verbena come back from last year. I was pleased it made it the winter here. Very mild winter though. I called it lantana .
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It's pretty. Same family, but verbena has 5 petals on flowers (4 on lantana) so different genus. Verbena isn't toxic either. I'm interested in the bee balm that someone mentioned. Also trying to collect seeds from my one borage plant. Bees love them, so would like to grow more next year. Looking for hummy-birds plants too.
 
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It's pretty. Same family, but verbena has 5 petals on flowers (4 on lantana) so different genus. Verbena isn't toxic either. I'm interested in the bee balm that someone mentioned. Also trying to collect seeds from my one borage plant. Bees love them, so would like to grow more next year. Looking for hummy-birds plants too.
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I love bee balm, the red too. LOL good drainage full sun. Its pretty hardy. I want poppys. That one I never had.
 
granny hatchet said:
My mom always asking me to pick her a mess of plantion and would show me what it looked like then I would go out to pick and there was 2 other things that looked just the same and I would give up. I wish you had been here to help. She never did get any. Something about a pointed tip vrs a rounded ? and broad leafed or slim ? Guess it dont matter now.
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There are several types of plantain with different shaped leaves, so maybe she wanted a particular one. Lots of medicinal uses for plantain leaves and I think some are edible, but I'd want to be sure I knew what I was doing before trying. We don't have the pretty broad leaf one here.
 
Hummingbirdsike anything red. Red bee balm has tube flowers they like. Mom used to cook plaintain, dock, poke salad. She boiled yellow dock root & drank it said it was good for your gall bladder. Also boiled mullein root & drank for chest congestion. Camping needs some of that now.
 
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Wishing4Wings said:
There are several types of plantain with different shaped leaves, so maybe she wanted a particular one. Lots of medicinal uses for plantain leaves and I think some are edible, but I'd want to be sure I knew what I was doing before trying. We don't have the pretty broad leaf one here.
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we have 2 and she said you can eat the other one but its tough. we grew up eating everything. Polk leaves and stem .
 
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