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Echinacea purpurea -purple coneflower – a wonderful purple medicinal herb
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Echinacea purpurea -purple coneflower – a wonderful purple medicinal herb that can significantly help in increasing the body’s defenses and resistance. It can strengthen biological immunity, especially with inflammation, infections and purulent processes. It is an excellent preventive and therapeutic agent in the period of influenza epidemics and viral diseases. Promotes metabolism.
At the same time, echinacea has edible flowers and can be used to decorate cakes and salads.
Cultivation: Echinacea seeds are pre-grown at home in March. Grown up seedlings are transplanted outside in mid-May. The distance between plants should be about 30 cm.
However, a settling span is possible until August.
Echinacea suits sunny and warm habitats, possibly with moderate partial shade. It is necessary to protect the plant from the wind.
The soil should be permeable, loamy-sandic, it can also be poorer in nutrients, does not require regular watering, and is highly tolerant of drought.
Plants are frost-resistant and do not need to be protected in winter.