We will try to explain process of growing helichrysum italicum from seed to plant and essential oil.
First of all we needed to harvest helichrysum seeds from wild plants in our area.
( preferably from the area where we will place plantation )
That happend to be more difficult than we thought, because for best seed it is desirable to harvest flowers from well developed plant. It was a common image in the last 15 years, but since then the villagers in Herzegovina ceased to hold cattle especially in large numbers as was the case before. Therefore, many plants such as juniper could grow undisturbed and slowly displace immortelle.
Also a great demand for this plant in last years led to its uncontrolled and improper collection in nature.
Because of all this, it took us a couple of hours more to collect than we planned.