Excellent video. Appreciate you showing the many different kinds instead of just the canadensis version and acting as though it's the only Goldenrod as so many do.
Excellent, clear video! First one I've come across that shows clear video of the different varieties. Thank you for helping me identify I do, in fact, have goldenrod!
I became captivated by huge goldenrods growing along the wooded path my dog & I walked this year. What a discovery! It was a mystical experience to see & be around them. And so began my love affair with the golden flower. Not even knowing what I was doing - I reverently picked some of the magnificent blooms, cut them up & put them into jars with apple cider vinegar creating an amazing elixir. (We must have been together in a past lifetime.) Their essence, vitality & lifeforce enhance my bath water - restoring my body & soul, removing all negative energy & healing my aura.
I was surprised by that too! I guess it makes sense though. I was listening to his podcast about native plants, and I was also struck by the wide variety of milkweed.
Matt, I was hiking and exploring in Western Mass a few years back and stumbled upon a field of Canada Goldenrods. What mesmerized me the most was the fragrance! The whole field was filled with that pleasant, sweet, honey-like fragrance. As a matter of fact, I am super big on fragrance. It's one of the most precious things for me. Because of this, almost all of the orchids in my collection are fragrant. I also grow a couple of gardenias indoors and a Fragrant Tea Olive! I even have a fragrant succulent, the String of Pearls, which flowers smell a bit like cinnamon! Keep in mind that a lot of people who are into plants are also into their fragrance.This leads me to giving you a constructive feedback. Now Matt, at one point in this video you took a big whiff of the goldenrod and that's pretty much it. It would be great if you would mention if a plant that you found/are talking about is fragrant or not, and if it is, take a few seconds to describe the fragrance and if it is strong or subtle! This would be greatly appreciated by me, and I'm pretty sure by many other watchers! Great content by the way! Keep it up! Stay chill
Wonderful video! Thank you. btw, do you know the name of the white-flowered plants that were growing alongside the goldenrods in your video? Thanks so much.
Had no idea you had a RU-vid channel and I really liked this video! I love goldenrod for its beauty and ecological value. There's a type of goldenrod for every kind of condition in a garden.
Actually I was watching Casper cartoon and I saw Goldenrod area which sad watchdog entered to there while his eyes bandaged with bandanna for testing his smell capabilities following one flower Casper drags around. He started to sneeze and lost his path. After that scene I started to search this flower and look what I found. WOW!
I own a showy Goldenrod and it is in a pot. It once bloomed this fall in October and now the flowers look brown dead. Would you suggest deadheading the flowers?
@@jonhohensee3258 Actually, he did, but only a crude rubber. The project went on for several years after his death, but synthetic rubber proved much more economical to produce, so the goldenrod rubber efforts were abandoned.
Thank you for this! I love learning about all the free food & medicine God put on my property-Goldenrod being one of my favorites! My question is… @4:00 you’re in front of “Showy Goldenrod” & right next to it is similar looking plant with white flowers instead of yellow. Do u happen to know what that white flowered plant is called? I have tons of goldenrod on my property but I also have quite a few of the white flowered plants as well. that looks very similar to goldenrod but with tiny white flowers instead yellow. Does Goldenrod have a white flowered variety? The leaves taste & smell exactly like goldenrod. I’ve looked online but get conflicting info. Thank you for your time :)
I cut my goldenrod back because after it bloomed, the long stem was dying from top to bottom, so I trimmed it and it has not grown a long stem to bloom since. Any suggestions on how to get it to bloom again?
Nice survey, thank-you. Our Plant Field Ecology prof. (Concordia Univ. Montreal) told us it was Plantago major (disturbed ground successional plant.) which was the major culprit for hay fever allergies in our region, anyway.
Lavender asters and goldenrod look beautiful together. The early colonists were much struck by this color combination. At one time lavender symbo;lized little boys and a limpid yellow, little girls. The signs for sacrifice in the Roman Colosseum were in these colors. generally 80 per cent little boys, twenty per cent little girls. All they really had was this moth mullein and the proportions were wrong.
Justin Voss that's true but often grow where there are other plants that do cause allergies.I particularly love fields and meadows but a lot of folks stay away from them or mow them down. I sniff everything but again I don't suffer from any allergies. I loved your videos.
Goldenrods do not cause allergies, period , if you were allergic to goldenrod you would need to eat it to he affected , the pollen is not spread by wind , it is heavy and is spread by animals , specifically pollinators, unless you are eating bees and butterflies no allergies from goldenrod
I like the music... it's like he just slayed the bad guy, saved the world and got the girl.. .while walking thru a field talking about weeds. Good stuff. Keep posting.
Golden rods might not cause allergies but they are a sure signe my eyes are going to be itchy and swollen, I'll be breathing out my mouth all day and be choking down more zertec than is recommended.
Goldenrods do not cause allergies at all , if you were allergic to goldenrod you would need to eat it to be affected, the pollen is very heavy , not carried by wind if you tap a flower it falls to the ground like lead dust
I have much Solidago californica in my L.A. yard and it is lovely and easy to grow. Let's bring nature home! Not enough of it left out there for the birds and bees!
I'm in central Cali, and I've been working hard for years to make my property a pollinator haven. I'm just starting to get into goldenrods, but I'm very impressed by how many bees are coming to my Showy Goldenrod right now. I need much more as far as late summer flowers go.