In this YouTube video, Tammy Sons walks through a blooming block of purple coneflower (Echinacea) at Tia Nursery during her lunch break. She highlights how monarch butterflies and other pollinators, such as bees, are attracted to the plants, noting the species’ long‑standing medicinal use. Tammy explains the nursery’s production scale—about 50,000 plants grown annually, with recent sales of 30,000 in two weeks and roughly 60,000 plants currently in the block—and describes the plants’ mature height (4–5 ft). She emphasizes the benefits of planting native species, references the Tennessee Department of Transportation’s free milkweed program to aid monarch recovery, and argues that native plants are hardier than hybrids. The video concludes with a promotional offer (buy‑one‑get‑one free, about $4 per plant) and directs viewers to tnursery.net for purchases, urging them to support pollinator habitats in their own gardens.
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This is Tammy Sons in our purple coneflower echinacea patch at Tia Nursery. I came down here for my lunch break just to show you why we sell so many hundred thousand of the echinacea, which is the purple coneflower plants. This block is just now starting to bloom out. And I took my lunch just to go down through the, the rows and show you the treasure trove that you will have in your garden if you plant the echinacea. They're also called purple coneflower. Here's another monarch. The monarchs are just going crazy over these plants. The echinacea has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes. We are not certified organic, but we do use natural fertilizers on all of our plants. Here's a pollinating bee on one of the blooms. Our echinacea plants, purple coneflowers, what the common name for it is. We grow about 50,000 of these a year. We could sell 150,000 if we could grow that many. We just don't have the space. To grow everything we sell. But this is a real good reason to plant echinacea plants, coneflower. These plants stand near 4 feet in height. The monarchs are all over these plants. Go to tnursery.net. Type in the search bar echinacea and you'll get plants right from this block. Right from this block of plants is where we will dig your plants. Some of these plants— I'm 5'4"— some of these plants are head, head high on me right now. If you love pollinators, birds, butterflies, bees, look no further than TN Nursery and buy all your pollinator perennials from tnnursery.net. And as you can see, we don't have to buy and resell our plants. I can take you straight to the fields and I can show you the quality of our plants. I can show you mature blooming age plants, and I can show you live pollinators on all of our plants. Here's a little monarch. They feast off the blooms. The Tennessee Department of Transportation is giving away free milkweed plant seed to try to get the monarchs off the extinct list. They're going extinct because people will not plant native plants. Native plants are so much more hardy than those fancy hybrids. You don't have to have special soil, special fertilizers. You don't have to have anything like that. All you do is plant native plants and they'll flourish where they're planted. You'll have pollinators all in your garden like we have in this block of Echinacea. We've sold 30,000 of these plants the last 2 weeks. There's probably 60,000 in this block. We're offering a buy one get one free deal for about $4 a plant. You can get a 4 to 5 foot mature blooming age plant at tnursery.net. Can you imagine having all of these pollinators fighting over the blooms in your gardens? They're everywhere. Shop tnursery.net to purchase these plants. Please see the link in the description below. Visit our website today.
