Alright. Hello, everyone and Welcome back to the Kellogg
Garden channel. I'm Bridget and this is Titan and today, we're
going to talk about growing Queen Anne's lace, or for me, Bishop's
Flower. But first, if you haven't already, go ahead and
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that too. Okay. So, growing Queen Anne's Lace. I was
actually really excited about growing this and a little
nervous growing it too. So, first, the excitment, I think it's
absolutely beautiful. I love that the pollinators love it
and I just wanted to grow it. What made me nervous was that
it can be considered an invasive species. It does
spread pretty easily. So, my first recommendation is to make
sure that you go and check with your local county extension
office or a local nursery and just really see if this is a
problem in your area. Now, I was nervous so I planted it in
a container. This plant really needs room to spread. I
didn't want it to spread so I put it in a container and I
have to say one of the reasons I love growing it now is
because it is a no fuss plant. I mean, it is low maintenance.
It doesn't care about soil, so it's not picky there. It
doesn't need a lot of water. I'm in Southern California. So,
a drought-tolerant or low water plant that's this beautiful and
what the pollinators love, I love. So, it absolutely ticked off
all the right boxes for me, right? Now, if you are
looking for Queen Anne's lace, more than likely, you're
going be finding bishop's fingers because most
seed companies and nurseries sell the look alike which is
this one. The difference between them, the flowers are a
little bit different. I think that the Queen Anne's lace or
Daucus Carota has flowers that are a little more compact and
put together and then in the center, not in some of them,
not all of them, you'll see a little bit of purple or blue in
the center like a little center section. Also, the leaves of
the Daucus Carota look like carrot leaves because it's a
wild carrot. So, wild herb, wild carrot, which means that
you can eat from the root to the flower so you can eat all of
Queen Anne's leaves. On the Bishop's flower, it doesn't
have the blue or the purple in it. The leaves aren't as carrot
looking but it also isn't as weedy as the Queen Anne's lace
either. And the stalk, the stem of it, this is pretty smooth
where the Queen Anne's lace has little hairs on it. Also, the
Queen Anne's lace smells sweet, almost carrot-like, and the
the Bishop's Finger or Ammi Majus doesn't have a
smell at all. And the other flower that looks like all of
these is Hemlock, right? And Hemlock is poisonous. So, be
careful if you're out there foraging and you want to bring
home some Queen Anne's lace. Know what you're doing because
it could be a problem. Queen Anne's lace also the
leaves some people have a sensitivity to them so you
might want to use gloves with them you can turn
red, itchy, or even blister, so I haven't had that problem with
this plant but now that I'm touching it I'm starting to
itch. Isn't that how it works? But, so far really I like this plant
a lot, if you're companion planting with it and let me
show you a close-up view and then we'll talk
about companion planting. Okay. So, if you're going to companion
plant with this, again, pollinators absolutely love it.
Bees, butterflies, my bees really really loved it. I saw a
few butterflies but mostly bees by it. So, you could put it
near just about anything. If you're going to be in the same
container, you can grow it with tomatoes, they say that
it helps with tomatoes, lettuce, things like that, but I
have it in a container right by some herbs. So, I've got a
whiskey barrel with a bunch of herbs there. There's some
lavender over there. It's a pretty crowded
little container. I also have some chives down here and
I've got a melon plant there. Oh, there's turmeric in there.
And then I have some catnip that I picked up. Lemon catnip
that I might be trying. I have some peas there. Then, I have
this lovely little edible gourd, the Cucuzza. That's right
there and then, I had lots of flowers with it and
we'll intersperse some of the the video of this when it was
really, really, big and beautiful and right now, like I said,
we're going to seed. So, not as many flowers. Now, the one
negative I will say about this is you can see I have it
staked. So, it gets pretty long and leggy and I have high winds
here so I had to stake it. Otherwise, it really falls over.
So again, giving it some room is a good idea. And you can see all
these little where the flowers are. This is all going to go to
seed now and when it goes to seed, it starts to turn brown
and it starts to cup up a little bit. So, hopefully you
can see that.
Now, the Queen Anne's lace, when it goes to seed, actually
the whole flower cups up. So, it does this.
As opposed to just these little guys. The other thing about
Queen Anne's lace is the seeds themselves from what I've read,
they're sticky. They have little stickers on them. So, that
must help it spread much better. And these are smooth.
They don't have that stickiness on it or the
stickers on it. Now, this did get blown around a lot and all
these tiny little white flowers do go flying everywhere and
they stick to things but when you really have to worry is
when it goes to seed. If you want to control this plant
a little bit more then you can deadhead it more. You can start
trimming it back and making sure that you don't have a lot
of flower heads that are going to seed. But overall, I
really like this plant and I plan on planting more and I
plan on collecting those seeds. Okay, so if you want to grow
this yourself, a couple of things to remember. One,
definitely check around to make sure that this is not whether
it's Queen Anne's Lace or Bishop's Flower, something that
your community is having a problem with. Second, know
which one you're getting, right? So, if you want to eat
something from root to top, top to bottom, then, Queen Anne's
lace is what you're looking for and that's Daucus Carota. If
you just want something that looks beautiful, brings in
a lot of pollinators, then you're looking for the Bishop's Flower
which is the Ammi Majus and you'll see that when you're
going in, it might say Queen Anne's lace when you go into
your nursery, but look for the botanical name and that'll tell
you, alright? And then, if you want to make sure it doesn't
spread, then, deadhead as much as you can and if you
want to collect seeds, then wait for them to brown on the plant
and then collect them. Again, I've really liked growing it, so
I'll talk about it probably a bit more. And also, give it
room to spread. For some of you, this blooms in the spring
and early summer, and in other regions, it's
summer to late summer. I'm going to keep planting this. I'm
hoping it'll also bloom in the fall for us. I'm in zone 10B
so we should be pretty temperate and I will say, it
handled the heat great. We have been in triple digits a few
times already and this had no problem, right? Where all my
other plants I was a little worried about and I covered
them. This one I had no problems with. So, win win.
Alright, so thank you so much for joining me again and if you
have any questions or comments, please leave them in the
comment section below and I will talk to you guys again
soon. Alright, thanks again. Happy gardening.