This Plant Does Everything (And Grows Itself!) | Yarrow Grow Guide
This Plant Does Everything (And Grows Itself!) | Yarrow Grow Guide
Learn more: https://www.epicgardening.com/yarrow-plant/ Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) has become a must-plant in all of our gardens here at Epic Gardening – it’s beautiful, comes in all different shapes and colors, and pollinators depend on its floral structure for support and nutrition. Chris breaks down exactly how to grow this simple but powerful plant in your garden.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Intro
00:54 – Common Yarrow & Plant Family
01:13 – Colours & Sizes
02:00 – Leaves
02:31 – Shape & Other Cultivars
03:08 – Scent & Beneficial Insects
03:46 – Edibility
04:05 – Growing Conditions
04:41 – Pruning
05:04 – Pests
05:29 – Propagation
06:27 – Maintenance
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Wow that polinator at the beginning of the video was so powerful it crashed youtube for me?
Yarrow is medicinal too
Does Chris have a channel of her own?
Do javalinas like yarrow? I have a problem with them eating all my flowering plants, cacti, bulbs and tubers. I’m looking for a plant to deter javalinas from attacking my garden. And no, I don’t plan to kill them. They are native to this area.
The bug sounded like it had some old cabbage. Perfect!
But seriously, yarrow and others were called "weeds", by my parents and grandparents. But exactly what various pollinators need.
Here in Scandinavia, yarrow is by many considered a weed due to it’s extensive growth and it’s tendency to overtake the lawn grass. I never planted any but have many growing in my garden as normal "weeds" throughout – i keep most of them and only remove the ones where I don’t like their placement. I am very lucky to have the rare, soft pink kind! They are stunning and I love looking at them.
First of all, many people pronounce the a in yarrow like the a in father, not like the a in cat. But most importantly, yarrow is edible and medicinal with a safety warning that you absolutely must give people before they use it. Yarrow works incredibly well for reducing fevers. It could literally save your life if you have a dangerously high fever, or it could make you feel better if you have a mild fever. It could also kill you if you have a blood clotting disorder and it doesn’t take much. I know, I make my children yarrow tea when they are sick and they’ve never taken Tylenol in their lives because of this. But I can’t drink it myself, if I do my legs immediately cramp and my circulation is affected throughout my body due to the combination of yarrow’s normally harmless effects on circulation and my disorder. So please, make sure you do not drink yarrow tea if you have any kind of blood clotting or circulation disorder because it could make you feel sick or even cause you to get a blood clot. Most herbalists do not even know about this and will likely tell you yarrow is one of the safest herbs because bad reactions to it are so unheard of that even people having the reaction might not realize it’s caused by the yarrow they just ingested.
her garden is sooo pretty
Common yarrow…great addition to lung teas…also a soothing sitz-bath component.
Yes! One of the few plants I planted this year, along with feverfew and its a new favourite! We’ve always had it growing in our lawn naturally. It’s a nice option for lawn cover too as it mows down well and comes back! Stays green too even in a drought.
Does she have a channel?
Don’t buy cultivars if you are trying to help pollinators, they produce very little pollen and nectar. Stick to wild seed grown.
Have to say I’m liking Chris’ videos almost more than Kevin’s! Sorry, Kev. 🙂 BTW, I would love to know how the other yarrow varieties (colors) do down in coastal SoCal (zone 10b)?
Great channel. Twice in a row I thought I’d search for a topic that wouldn’t be spoke about much and ended up here both times last was for goji, thanks!! Im cultivating both
it looks like hemlock…..i dont want to die early…one mistake and you are done…. skip the white and yellow…. you should be good
Is it possible to propagate yarrow from stem or leaf cuttings?
Deer ate mine
They’re from the lettuce family?! I thought it was aster or daisy (which might be the same family, haven’t checked). But lettuce?
Any epic gardeners in Columbus Ohio
im so surprised that she doesnt talk about the medicinal properties of Yarrow. if you ever cut yourself badly grab some yarrow and put it on the blood flow coming out of your skin and it will stop the blood immediatly then if you leave it there it will stitch up your wound. Not only that but you can create a tincture out of the herb and take it daily for healthy veins along with curing spider veins and curring anerisms.
Love the bees. Felt bad cutting the grass yesterday like the other ocd obsessed because of all the clover. Everyone else’s lawn is chemical infested. If the world ends they’ll be eating poison. Definitely noticed dill was attracting alot plus the sunflowers and my millennium allium. Have you tried bee keeping
I’ve always pronounced it like jar-row, but with a "y."? Is that a regional thing? Great plant.
I have yarrow growing wild in my lawn and even the ones that get mowed regularly still flower a couple inches above the ground. I let it grow out in some areas and i want to move some around to low traffic areas I can let it go
Southerner here… we pronounce it "Yah – row" 😂
I’ve heard yarrow’s scent described all the way from sweet, to pine-like, to as generous as "resinous chamomile" and now as blunt as "wet socks". I even saw it described as harshly as smelling like sh*t. Which, personally, is what it kinda smells like to me 😅
No offence to Kevin, but I prefer Chris’s garden over his by a massive margin. I’m sure the container garden approach is more expedient in some situations, but having mostly bare ground and plants restricted to containers just seems to me to be bizarre, inefficient and unnatural. I love gardens like Chris’s that are actually working with the local soil, and lush all over not just within containers
The rabbits in my neighborhood keep some of my yarrow mown to the ground.
So it’s pretty wild for me personally that this video came out when it did. I was visiting a friend in an Alaska Native village way off the road system. My friend was showing me some of the plants that have value as traditional medicines. She showed me the yarrow plant and told me its frequently dried and used as a fever reducer, but she couldn’t recall the English word. So while I only learned the Sugt’stun word, I decided it would be fun to grow. Thanks for helping me out!
What is that gorgeous plant with purple flowers ar :36 ?
Fun Fact: Bees will not visit two different species of flower during the same trip. They have evolved to only select the same flowers during any given trip from the hive, so that they optimize pollination. So remember that having a bunch of individual flowers in your garden isnt that great for pollinators, because it increase the amount of trips they take from the hive, making them use more energy. Often, bees will avoid traveling to isolated flowers for this exact reason. The best way to support pollinators is to plant prolific plants that produce a lot of flowers proportional to their size and grow time.
Is the gardening discord still around? I was on an older vid and clicked the link. But the discord wasnt there.
The way you pronounce it’s name is weird. I don’t think that’s how it is pronounced.
For those that wonder about its medicinal uses, it can slow or stop bleeding if made into a poultice or ointment and applied to a wound
"Mowable" … thank you!! This is exactly the information I wanted. The lawn at my new home could use some fun additions. I’ll start with white yarrow, as I bought a s#!+-ton of seeds a year or so ago.
I was today uears old when I learnt that lettuce is in the asteraceae family.
yarrow is amazing plant medicine.
It’s not only edible, but has many health benefits. The main one is the ability to stop bleeding when applied to a wound.
Yarrow attracts and sustains more ladybugs than anything else I have ever grown. I keep some in every garden like security posts to guard my more vulnerable plants from pests. It also makes the best mulch. It holds together better than straw and builds a light, airy topsoil.
looking fw to growing mine. have seeds. never saw any colors but white and yellow tho.
I think I should try to find native white flowering yarrows (Southern Ontario, Canada), because the yellow one is beautiful but I never see bees on it, especially the little bees.
is yarrow poisonous to dogs?
Yarrow is one of my favorites!!
As an herb (check a good herb book) it’s great for fevers, hormonal imbalances, and externally it’s a great wound herb, staunching bleeding.
Yes, I listened and cultivated the like button 😊
Mabuhay from Arizona 🥰
This is Kevin, here is Chris in Vancouver …. yep thank you cultivate the like button 🙄
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What variety is this white, tall, upright yarrow?
Thank you for this thoroughly informative and detailed presentation. I like your positivity.
“Wet socks” 🤣🤣🤣
That garden is a dream. I wish I had some soil to plant them.
So I did some reading up on yarrow and apparently its toxic to dogs. Anyone with dogs have experience growing this? How worried should I be about growing some around my dogs?