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Sep 16, 2026
Susun WeedHOST
Well, whatever she's willing to do, the more frequently she does it, the better.
Susun WeedHOST
Yarrow is a very powerful anti-infectant.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Okay, wonderful.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Okay.
LydiaHOST
It's the second longest I've got.
LydiaHOST
This has got Achillea, Eringiums, Helleniums, Achillea the Pearl, Phlox, some Statis, Gomphrena, Callistephus, some Cosmos, Ammi, and then Hydrangeas.
LydiaHOST
I've cut back most of the Achillea now, and I've had a couple of stems of colour come up.
LydiaHOST
But basically, I want those guys to have a bit of a rest because they've floured their socks off this summer.
LydiaHOST
Eringiums also recovering.
LydiaHOST
They're amazing.
LydiaHOST
They're going to go in my garden soon.
LydiaHOST
Uh, Achillea the Pearl, absolute trooper.
speaker_4NARRATOR
By the first century AD, they had become common enough that emperors such as Nero and Domitian organised spectacles that specifically included female combatants.
speaker_4NARRATOR
A marble relief dating from approximately the 2nd century AD shows two women fighting, identified as Amazon and Achillea, and the inscription says they fought until reaching an honourable draw.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Another possible representation, a small statuette from Hamburg, may show a victorious female gladiator raising her sword.
speaker_4NARRATOR
But there is something important.
Hank GreenHOST
This is yarrow, a flowering plant found all over the Northern Hemisphere.
Hank GreenHOST
Its feathery leaves have natural astringent properties, and its scientific name, Achillea, uh, comes from Achilles, the Greek hero, who's said to have used it on the wounds of his soldiers.
Hank GreenHOST
And this is snake grass, otherwise known as horsetail, or to the kids, pop grass, 'cause you can just pop it apart and then put it back together again, although on top there it's dead now.
Hank GreenHOST
And this is a Ponderosa pine, one of my favorite trees.
David KleperikNARRATOR
This time he invaded Italy.
David KleperikNARRATOR
He attacked and plundered a town of Achillea, and terrified inhabitants fled for their lives to the hills and mountains.
David KleperikNARRATOR
Some of them took refuge in the islands and marshes of the Adriatic Sea.
David KleperikNARRATOR
Here they founded Venice.
Molly EdwardsGUEST
So plants are very, very clever little, little chemists, but yeah, some of it's, Some of it's a contact raft.
Molly EdwardsGUEST
Some of it's, you know, hemlock, hemlock, Achillea, arsenic, Achillea.
Molly EdwardsGUEST
Those are all plant compounds.
Molly EdwardsGUEST
But these chemical pathways are, you know, genetically, it's usually like you have a substance, an enzyme.
David KleperikNARRATOR
This time he invaded Italy.
David KleperikNARRATOR
He attacked and plundered a town of Achillea, and terrified inhabitants fled for their lives to the hills and mountains.
David KleperikNARRATOR
Some of them took refuge in the islands and marshes of the Adriatic Sea.
David KleperikNARRATOR
Here they founded Venice.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
You're totally right.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
It is a very hot topic at the minute i- is, is are there other options to grass? And I actually saw a lawn, uh, just earlier today that I don't think was, um, purposefully yarrow, which is also known as Achillea.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
I think it was more accidental in patches, and it was quite striking because it was flowering at that point, so you had all of these little white flower heads popping up everywhere.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
I think it would be worth a go in certain areas.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
Um, so that's when you have just one plant over a big area.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
Always more susceptible to something going wrong.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
Achillea is not more drought tolerant than grass.
Bethan CollertonPANELIST
Grass actually purposefully dies off when it gets too hot.
John JonesHOST
And it's pretty much any perennial.
John JonesHOST
So some of the ones we cover in the Grow Along In Depth, you know, Achilles, Rebeckias, Salvias, Lupids, Verbascan, Goras, Echinacea, Lavender, I'll also be covering lavender in this week's herbal workshop, and we'll do sowing and cuttings of that, so we'll show how to grow that in a couple of ways.
John JonesHOST
But you can also do sweet peas, some of your biennial plants, your foxgloves, that sort of thing.
John JonesHOST
So loads that you can be sowing this month, and the conditions are quite good in terms of heat at the moment, so it's nice and warm.
speaker_8AUDIENCE
It's one of those, I wonder if these even grow around here.
speaker_8AUDIENCE
Yarrow? Is it growing? Yeah,
Felder RushingHOST
yarrow.
Felder RushingHOST
Yeah, yarrow does fine.
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