{"id":89,"date":"2008-08-29T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-09-04T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T22:48:33","slug":"echinacea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/29\/echinacea\/","title":{"rendered":"Echinacea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Echinacea.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"Echinacea\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Echinacea\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/Echinacea.JPG?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>  Need more late summer perennials to extend your season?&nbsp; <strong>Purple coneflowers <\/strong>will continue to bloom until frost then go dormant for the winter.&nbsp; Showy 4&quot; rosy purple daisies are lightly fragrant and make good cut flowers for bouquets.&nbsp; The clumps spread slowly and can be carefully divided after 3 or 4 years.&nbsp; There is also a beautiful white variety called White Swan.&nbsp; If faded flowers are left in place, the bristly seed heads provide food for finches in winter. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The herb <strong>echinacea<\/strong> is derived from varieties of this flower.&nbsp; E. angustifolia is used nowadays as a <strong>fortifier of the immune<\/strong> <strong>system<\/strong>, mainly to prevent flu and minor respiratory diseases by increasing the body&#8217;s production of interferon.&nbsp; The roots are the part of this plant used for medicinal purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Echinacea was used by Native Americans more than any other plant in the plains states.&nbsp; It&#8217;s antiseptic properties were used to treat snake and insect bites, to bathe burns and to help cure the &ldquo;sweats.&rdquo;&nbsp; They chewed the plants roots to ease the pain of toothache.&nbsp; It was also used by the Native Americans for purification.&nbsp; The leaves and the flowers can be used in teas as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need more late summer perennials to extend your season?&nbsp; Purple coneflowers will continue to bloom until frost then go dormant for the winter.&nbsp; Showy 4&quot; rosy purple daisies are lightly fragrant and make good cut flowers for bouquets.&nbsp; The clumps spread slowly and can be carefully divided after 3 or 4 years.&nbsp; There is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/29\/echinacea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Echinacea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,58,55,5,6,54,28],"tags":[520,521],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beneficial-insects","category-butterfly-plants","category-container-gardening","category-cut-flowers","category-deer-resistant-plants","category-drought-tolerant-plants","category-flowers","category-perennials","tag-deer-resistant-plants","tag-drought-tolerant-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}