Joe-Pye weeds

Animal uses, because if you're thinking about either encouraging something to grow where it's already growing in your garden or adding it to your garden or recognizing it, it's just nice to know what kind of animals are going to be utilizing it.

So what might show up, you know, and like Joe Pye and the hummingbirds.

I mean, if you have Joe Pye, hummingbirds will be visiting you and also other bees and stuff like that so that's one of the things i've seen people be very interested in lately is pollinator plants so so many herbs are pollinator plants and you know it's just it's kind of like enriching or re-enriching a place that we often just you know like plow down and plant grass in i want people to know you know if you have If you're taking an antidepressant, then you shouldn't take this thing.

And also, the bottom line is I'm not a doctor.

I'm not a nurse.

So, um, yeah, like I'm looking, I'm looking f- out the window.

I wish you could see my Joe Pye, they are just like-

Ooh

... literally brown.

They were-

Mm-hmm

... and I was like, "I need to have so many more Joe Pye weed through here," and now I'm like, "Oh, gosh, they-

Hmm.

I mean, there's just so many perennials here.

I would say, you know, everything from Seashore Mallow to all kinds of sunflowers, Joe Pye Weed.

Oh, I want to tell you that.

I got it last year.

Stephen...

That Joe Pye weed got to be about eight feet tall and is still just hanging in there.

And butterflies, Lord, they love it.

Oh, yes, they do.

It is a mix of colors that show up well from a distance, and the tall plants will shade out stray weeds.

Hollow-stemmed Joe Pye weed, fistulosum, requires a moist site, so it's great for a rain garden.

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It's not a Eupatorium.

Oh, the Eutrochium hysopifolium? That one?

No.

That's a-