helenium

Pinch out asters, helenium and eupatorium at knee height and they will re-branch to provide you with stockier plants.

Jobs to do in May 2010

Last fall helenium ‘mardi gras’ and hesperaloe were added.

Eryngium « Fairegarden 2008

Up by the shed, the mix of helenium ‘Mardi Gras’ and eyrngiums offers a mix of hot and cool.

June 2008 Bloom Day « Fairegarden 2008

We have faithfully saved the seeds and planted them in this bed by the shed where the eryngium, helenium and stipa call home, trying for a mass planting some day.

July Bloom Day 2008-A Wide Variety « Fairegarden 2008

This used to be an iris bed, but they were not performing to expectations and have been replaced with blackberry lilies, stipa grass, eryngium, helenium and whatever decides it wants to live there.

Garden designers workshop- paths and walkways « Fairegarden 2007

On the grassy shore where the river begins to leave the rocks the brilliant blue lobelia is breaking into blossom, contrasted with the bright lemon yellow of the helenium.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Inuline, a vegetable substance of closely kindred nature to starch and dextrine, was discovered by Rose in Elecampane, and takes its name from the old botanical designation of that plant (I. helenium).

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

It may be driven away by smoke, especially by that from inula helenium, elecampane; and by that of cannabis, hemp.

Note IV 1803

Root of seneka, polygala seneka, of elicampane, inula helenium.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

It may be driven away by smoke, especially by that from inula helenium, elecampane; and by that of cannabis, hemp.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766