Elsie was a good friend of mine. She was special in so many ways. Thanks for shedding light on her and the Tennessee Coneflower

@chrismoney1468

11 ай бұрын

I’m skeptical.

@paulmoore721

11 ай бұрын

Skeptical? Please explain. Thanks.

@mitchyoung93

11 ай бұрын

104 years.

@micamp45hc99

11 ай бұрын

God bless her efforts!

@chrismoney1468

11 ай бұрын

@@paulmoore721 I’m just.. skeptical.

Flowers are easily noticed and iconic. One wonders how many modest-looking grasses have gone extinct because they weren't flamboyant enough to grab anyone's attention in the first place.

@gomezaddams6470

11 ай бұрын

I feel like the introduction of the manicured lawn, Weed free and perfect. Has done more damage world than we even realize. Wild grasses would be would be damaged hugely by what is considered "grass". It made chemicals the norm. And it made natural grasses become invisible as far as importance.😢

@Aaron-oe8xw

11 ай бұрын

​@@gomezaddams6470you are absolutley correct, grass monoculture is a big cause in the continuous degredation of natural ecosystem. Keep the good info going! Kill your lawn ppl ^.^

@shalacarter6658

11 ай бұрын

@@gomezaddams6470 They are dead zones!

@choccolocco

11 ай бұрын

@@gomezaddams6470 While I have a normal lawn around the house, I do maintain natural areas and have some really cool switchgrasses that I’ve allowed to spread. I also try to use only native species in my landscape. But you are correct, and imo the chemicals do far more damage than we will ever know.

@paulmoore721

11 ай бұрын

Great comment! So many less obvious but still beautiful plants in these (and all) environments.

I am so glad to see this flower has survived and now protected. I love it when the Earth wins her battles against destructive developers. Thanks for sharing this lovely flower with us. Best wishes. 🌱

Love your channel, Adam. You're a great teacher 🌿

Thank you for sharing this! I'm always amazed at the biodiversity in habitats with poor soil like this.

Can we take a moment to appreciate this man has built himself of the land for YEARS if not decades. And he's absolutely YOLKED. Take notes muscle men.

@johnrice1943

11 ай бұрын

Ghey

@timnizle1

11 ай бұрын

@@johnrice1943 🤣

@melvinlee5684

11 ай бұрын

I hope not!

This video sent shivers up my spine. It gives me hope that similar action can be taken for endemic wild orchids which are facing extinction.

@brittneywillis2012

11 ай бұрын

I’ve seen two wild orchids in TN this spring/summer.

Or ‘How Powerful a single’ minded’ lady’ can be!?!! YAY ELSIE!!❣️❣️❣️🌸🌸🌸

Terrific story Adam & thanks for introducing us to the Tennessee Coneflower! 👍👍

Thanks for visiting my troubled, yet beautiful state. Great video Adam!

Anchor down Elsie. Proud of your work and service to Tennessee.

Tennessee is practically my next door neighbor yet, I'm ignorant of these facts. Thanks Adam for educate me and perhaps other people like myself about the wonderful work of Elsie Quarterman to save this Georgious flower from extinction and in turn natural habitat in which it's grown is being protected as well. Keep up the wonderful work you do.

What a great story! I love hearing that endangered species are brought back. Too many people think we are apart from nature, rather than a part of nature. We need to feel that connection in order to respect the planet.

Apart from the truly amazing videos that you share Adam, it's inspiring to read through the multitudes of comments generated from caring and appreciative folks. Gives me hope that we as a species will continue to be.

So true! Everything is connected and even the smallest change ( born from love and caring) can leave a lasting legacy of good in this world. Thank you for bringing us this inspiring story!

OH, WOW, amazing, how great to see things like this happen. Especially when so much is against them like relying on a unique ecosystem. For so many plants the abundance of 10-acre lawns in rural areas that are mown weekly, need it or not create a monoculture not only eliminating the native plants but all that revolves around them. Incredible things happen when we quit cutting it all down. Elsie Quarterman is a rock star, so are you.

@7thsluglord363

11 ай бұрын

I work for a lawn care company, and this is so true. They had no idea what milkweed was before i started working for them and stopped cutting them down when i saw them in peoples flower beds and edging, they started yelling at me for it until i explained that its an endangered plant that is the only food for the more endangered butterflies. Now they let me leave them in edges and gardens, but they wont go around ANYTHING if it compromises the look of their pointless lines in the grass. The amount of money that people waste paying a company to mow their huge grassy yards that they use for literally nothing ever is absurd. I try my best to spread the word of growing things besides grass, grow food, grow trees, grow bushes, anything but a solid grass yard. Grass yards are just such a waste of money, not very great for the environment or biodiversity, and in my opinion, a giant grass yard with stripes cut in it is one the most tacky and ugly things you can possibly do to your yard.

@pottersjournal

11 ай бұрын

@@7thsluglord363 The commercial development and farms are seen whereas vast expanses of lawn are under the radar. Foreign visitors take quick notice of them. The idea is out there to take the large expanses, design in beautiful curvy line for arias mown maybe only once a year or every three years. It could be a hard sell but with the right logo on you truck or maybe a walk through a field that is truly alive it could just fly off the shelf.

@7thsluglord363

11 ай бұрын

@@pottersjournal im currently trying to get a start on my own landscaping and plant nursery business specifically so i can try and get more people to have more productive less wasteful yards. Even if people dont particularly care about the impact on the plant and animal life and general environment, if people would grow more food or other usefull herbs and flowers and whatnot, they would save so much money, and have such better health...

@shalacarter6658

11 ай бұрын

@@7thsluglord363 Thank you for your efforts to remove dead zones!

@mumukex

10 ай бұрын

@7thsluglord363 Thank you for your efforts! Wishing you the best in your business

Glad to see you are well and doing what you do best. You are an amazing young man and like the Tennessee Purple Coneflower this world would be at a great loss without you. 💜 Thank you.

Wow every once in a while I check in with your channel but I haven't done in a while while you have grown son.. I'm so thrilled that your passion for plants and flowers and things has grown that you still want to tell people about them totally amazing!!

Thanks for the lesson Adam, beautiful flower!

Thanks so much for this info! I have walked through Cedar Glade areas and never realized they were naturally occuring and so amazing!

Thank you. Exactly what I was thinking, how single people make a difference. Aleutian cackling goose has a similar story. Thank you for information about the Cedar Glade. I was unfamiliar with the name of this habitat.

Thank you for this Adam. Gives me hope that nature will prevail!

Amazing story please share more with us! Thank you

This was an awesome and eye opening video! Thank you! I don’t mow my ‘yard’. It’s a chaotic wild 😛 mess of so many amazing “weedy” things and I love it. I have so much echinacea, not the Tennessee one but it’s related. Because I don’t “weed” and “mow” these purple coneflowers that I planted just once, 3 years ago, are spreading and I sometimes pluck off the dead dried seed cones and throw them around to see where they might pop up next year. I loved this video and love that this wonderful lady lived to 104! Plants enhance our longevity! 🙏🏽

I’ve actually stumbled upon quite a few cedar glades here in Alabama, mostly small, but a few that a multiple acres. There are lots of awesome things that thrive in such places. Thanks for informing me on the proper name for these areas, they’ve always been some of my favorites because they almost feel “other worldly”.

If you ever decide to go to Alaska.... I hope you let it be known and would like to do some hikes with fans. Every time I watch one of your outdoor videos (most of them!) I think how fun it would be to go on a hike with you and just learn and/or ask a ton of questions like a 3 year old at every turn... heck sometimes even tripping up on my own questions asking another one before one is fully asked! I just get so excited about learning my land! lol I've been going out, when opportunity presents, to the different parks to walk and observe and identify. I tell people when they ask about plans... "I'm gonna go learn my land some today!"

Thanks, Adam! Great story that shows that just one person CAN make a difference! YOU inspire so many, and give me hope!

Very interesting information, nice to see that something isn't lost to progress.

I've spent many hours among cedar glades in the karst areas of Central Kentucky and Tennessee. I wasn't specifically aware of the Tennessee Purple Coneflower. Most of my time in these places was hunting rattlesnake, exploring sinkholes and spelunking. I have also assisted in the harvest of aromatic Eastern Red Cedar. Thanks for sharing the story of this beautiful native wildflower.

That was fantastic to learn about, Adam. Thank you.

I absolutely love your content. Thank you for your exploration and explanation

I loved this story Adam! Thank you for mentioning Elsie as being instrumental in changing the course of this wild plants future - she took charge of her portion of her dominion. We all have a responsibility to this ream. Best wishes Adam.

We grow Echinacea purpurea in sw PA, i didnt realize TN had their own native version.

Thank you Adam. Have a great day there. God Bless You 🙏

There was a cedar glade behind my house in Kentucky where I grew up. I do not remember ever seeing this purple flower there. Im pretty sure its a protected spot, and would be interested in seeing its development since I was a kid.

@JeremyBertram-nd3wj

11 ай бұрын

I live in Wayne county Kentucky about 6 miles from Tennessee. These flowers are here. I see them on the mountain where the cap rock is.

@raycecil4643

11 ай бұрын

@@JeremyBertram-nd3wj My brother in law is from Wayne County, Monticello area. Im up in Breckinridge.

@JeremyBertram-nd3wj

11 ай бұрын

@@raycecil4643 I'm in the powersburg community. About 6 miles north of Tennessee. My family has a whole mountain and half another. I stay in the woods for the most part if it's not storming. There's so much to gather. Passion flower and chicory are in bloom right now.

@raycecil4643

11 ай бұрын

@@JeremyBertram-nd3wj I wasn't blessed with such an amazing peice of land, but I have worked hard to acquire 30 acres.

@JeremyBertram-nd3wj

11 ай бұрын

@@raycecil4643 this land has been in my family since America became America. It was a land grant. My ancestors were here in the 1730s. Congratulations on your land, it's precious. They aren't making any more of it.

Coneflowers are so beautiful ❤ Love from Austria

Thank you Adam, for another great video. I love wildflower videos, and this is a beautiful story.

This really shows what just one person can do!

Wonderful story! All the good feels.

Thanks for the report on this flower and the cedar glades!

wonderful story! Thank you! learn something new every day!

Wonderful info for my home state mental cache. More time spent in cedar glades will be a mission! Thanks Adam!

Beautiful story. Thank you for shedding light on this rare plant and the signigicance of its protection.

I live in south east Kentucky and I've seen those flowers here.

Chicory and passion flower is in bloom right now where I live.

I can relate to this flower more than I should.

Great story. The cornflower looks like it could be in the same family as the cosmos. The colour is fabulous. 💐

Great content Adam, and presentation as usual. Shifting focus to a native flower is a nice change. Please keep doing little video lessons.

This was wonderful.Thank you. I can see your videos being shown to elementary and high school students. Very educational !

That was a wonderful story. Thank you and Elsie.

What a great story! And thank you, Else!

What a great feel good video! Thank you Adam!

This is a wet survivor story! Thank you!

Thank you Elsie!🌱

What a great story of the history of this beautiful wild flower. Thank you !

We have a place on Drummond Island that is Lime stone on the surface, the only place that plants grow is in the cracks. They found a type of Fern that was not known and was a new plant.

@pokeninja777

11 ай бұрын

interesting, anywhere to read about this discovery?

Hi Adam! This is my new favorite video of yours. What an amazing story. And bless that lady's soul! I have had friends like her. And thanks be that she lived to 100 years old to see her work brought to fruition. I need to kiss the snakes! xo

Dude,you have the best videos' !!!! Thanks for the work you put into them,on a side note :it' looks like you've been hitting the gym, and bulking up those arms,good for you, stay health I'm looking forward to many more awesome videos from you.

I hope you can come to the place where you will collect and sell seeds from some of these native plants. Elsie would be proud.

Thank you so much for this! I volunteer for a local land trust so I am all about conservation. This story illustrates perfectly how one plant can save a whole ecosystem. I like this divergence away from foraging, as well. (Though I do like foraging!) Anyhow, we’ll done!!!

So cool! One person can make a world of difference.

Thank you for this video Never knew of these land places although I liken them to the rocky red shale ledges along the escarpment of the Catskills where I do most of my walking…lots of dry mossy and licheny areas. Very cool

How is it different than the purple coneflowers we have in Taney county Missouri?

@bfboobie

11 ай бұрын

Different species, structure, more erect ray flowers etc

@stevehilliard1495

11 ай бұрын

@@bfboobie thank you for the reply. We have cedar glades here also

@bfboobie

11 ай бұрын

@@stevehilliard1495 interesting! We have cedar glades too in and around Dallas TX but we called them 'cedar brakes' instead of glades. Little to no topsoil, limestone outcrops, lots of Juniperus either eastern red cedar or ashe juniper, and unique wildflowers. We had a couple species of Echinacea but not the vertical flowering Tennessee variety. Ours or most species I guess face upwards, usually with drooping ray flowers. Looks like tennesseensis has unusual front-facing disks. I think the flora and fauna community of this ecosystem would have similarities throughout middle and Eastern North America at least, even if some differences in exact or localized species. Disparate or discontinuous, localized habitat patches maybe lead to more speciation over the last many thousands of years. Golden-cheeked Warbler is a bird specialist of cedar brakes in central Texas. Quite a different flora and fauna mix than the adjacent riparian or bottom land areas, or even the more widespread grasslands.

Thanks Adam

Thank you for some good news and uplifting story.

I had no idea it came back! I have some in my backyard. I've seen whole fields of them here in PA. The butterflies and bees seem to love them.

Nice news. Thanks for the report. We need about a million more Elsies. Cheers

I love the phrase "botanical adventures".

I have Tennessee coneflowers growing in my front yard! It’s available at a native plant nursery near me (Knoxville). Fun fact: Tennessee coneflower blooms always face east! It’s odd but true.

Thanks, Love you and your work, now get to PA I'm sure your missed.

Very cool! Nice to hear some good news, thanks!

awesome... am glad you could make an adventure this way...

Always great content! Thanks for sharing. You know your land

Thank you for a wonderful presentation!

I just started foraging and have seen a lot of your (around) 7 year old content. First off, you age amazingly 😜 But really, I appreciate the info! Keeping us safe and knowledgeable!

Come back to West TN in September for this! 9/23/23 10-12:30. Led by the TN State Natural Areas division. This land is in the process of becoming a state natural area. -Be the first to explore the newly acquired sand hill community at Ghost River State Natural Area. The community is the only place in Tennessee to see sand post oak and capillary hair sedge and one of the few areas to see Plukenet’s flat-sedge. For this event, we will meet in the Mineral Slough parking lot and carpool over to the sand hill community.

Great story! Thanks Adam. Have a great 4th! 👍🌺👌🇺🇸

What an excellent video! So glad I found your channel!

Thank you so much for this Adam. This is a success story!

Thanks so much Adam, a great video and so important. Great music too.

I love your videos! Your looking swole Adam!!! You have inspired me to join my local mushroom community in the Catskills. I can’t thank you enough for introducing me to this community. Your energy and enthusiasm is truly inspiring.

I love your channel, Adam and I recommend it to all my foraging friends! On a walk this afternoon with my family (in western PA no less) I thought about how great it would be if there were a channel on how to best prepare or preserve the plants, herbs, and mushrooms you find! Not sure if you're aware of any but I would love to see something like that!

Thank you for your work.

Love your channel!! You’re sooo smart!

That was fun to learn about, thanks.

Very nice! Thank you!!

Great job on this video Adam! Thank you.

Excellent video, thank you. I believe in Ontario, we call Cedar glades Alvar plains. Although I have not seen these purple coneflowers on our Alvar plains (probably not in it's range) but we do have Prairie Smoke flowers which are amazing plants. God bless you as you teach us more and more of the Creator's goodness.

Amazing

Fascinating!

I just stumbled upon ur channel tonight! I watched a couple of your vids and i like them alot! Super interresting and clear informations. Thanks alot! Subscribed!

beautiful

I'm more familiar with the purple coneflower, _Echinacea purpurea._ I didn't know it had an endangered relative native to Tennessee.

Nice video. Well presented and informative. Thank you

Damn Adam you putting on those gains homie!

Great video!

Who knew …… but now I know thank you

heart warming.

Wow this is the first time I've gotten an ad on one of your videos.

Adam, we dedicate a large area of our front yard, in Springfield, IL, to wild prairie flowers and that includes some Purple Coneflowers. I assume that these are the same flower.

@ThreeRunHomer

11 ай бұрын

Purple coneflower is much more common and widespread than Tennessee coneflower. Different plants.