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Unreliable for me. I don’t go for the fancy colors & cultivars. Just plain old coneflower. It’s supposed to be an easy, wet it and fo...Read More
I love this plant! I have been growing purple cone flower for about 3 years. As a novice, it has been very easy to care for and looks gre...Read More
Love the many uses of this plant! The butterflies also love it!! I have had a few of them over the past few years. They DO NOT like a lot...Read More
This is a great plant, with a great color. It attracts butterflies, including Monarchs. Make sure you have the true specie and not a gard...Read More
haven't tried to grow it, but in researching it, learned it can cause allergic reactions if ingested.
This is usually called purple coneflower.
Tough, easy, adaptable, and long-blooming, this is a great garden plant. The flo...Read More
I absolutely love this plant. I think my originals were given to me by my son. I had decided to quit doing the same boring annuals ever...Read More
One of my very favorite perennials that is easy, reliable, and does not need staking. This native plant is commonly sold at most garden c...Read More
A butterfly magnet! This is one of the Top 3 nectar-bearing food plants for butterflies. (The other two are butterfly weed & New England ...Read More
One of my all-time favorite plants. The area where I had previously grown it has been redone and I lost me ever-growing cluster of plant...Read More
I have several different cultivars in my garden. My first plants did not do so well. I moved them, even one that looked like it was dying...Read More
This plant is even more reliable than Black Eyed Susans in my OKC zone 7a yard. Withstands cold, humidity, heat, and drought well. It's...Read More
I love Echinacea. Even the seedheads are pretty. My only problem are the squirrels love to dig them out of the pots on my deck and eat ...Read More
These smell wonderful, tolerate heat and drought, survive rain and humidity, rebound from difficult winters, maintain a full clump of gre...Read More
Nice plant, easy to grow. Butterflies, bees, and birds like this plant. Leave the stalks up after blooming so that the birds can eat the ...Read More
I bought 3 Purple Coneflowers from Lowe's about 6 weeks ago. Planted them where they get full sun. They aren't doing ANYTHING. Haven't di...Read More
This has been my favorite for years...this year, however, I had my first taste of the dreaded yellow aster disease caused by leaf hoppers...Read More
Grows well in high altitude, dry New Mexico. Great fresh cut flowers for vases. Cut off long seed heads for dry flower arrangement. I ha...Read More
This is a wonderful work horse plant. Does well in full sun and shade. All most bug free but birds love the seed. My yard is mostly sh...Read More
Before finding out that drinking green tea daily wards off colds, I would make a vodka tincture of this plant, a couple of dropperfuls ta...Read More
I love the flower, but mine have been planted for 3 years and have never looked healthy. Also, they don't seem to reproduce like some ha...Read More
This plant self sows freely, draws the bees and butterflies and even a hummingbird or 2. I leave the seed heads on the plants through ou...Read More
Very pretty, draws butterflies, and birds, takes the heat and clay soil I have. When I first started my garden a lady gave me a couple o...Read More
I like purple coneflower, but in the hot Iowa sun the color fades. I ordered Ruby Star and Vintage wine last year and was happy with them...Read More
I've found this plant to grow very well in sun or part shade even in the hard & dry clay soil we have in some of our gardens... Which mak...Read More
A very hardy plant with pretty flowers. The birds love it; I don't deadhead it much in order to leave food for them. June - September b...Read More
Grows itself. I have a sandy soil occasional feeding and watering and I don't mess with them and they just come back thicker every year.
Very resistant to drought, I personally dislike the droopy petals, but it's an Old Faithful in our garden!
This is a very easy plant to grow. It adds an interesting element to the garden.
This is among my favorite perennials for the following reasons:
The foliage is interesting and bold.
The flowers are unique...Read More
Very low water needs. Turns black when rainfall is abundant, though it does come back. Both years I've only gotten four or five flowers. ...Read More
I do love this flower, it can take the hot Florida summer sun unlike many things we try to grow here. But alas, much like black-eyed-susa...Read More
Always beautiful..... always easy...... the new or fairly new must for the garden...... will be a classic one day like roses...... well...Read More
My purple coneflowers started from one nursery bought plant and spread rapidly in my butterfly garden which has very fertile soil and ful...Read More
Easy and carefree, this plant is popular with butterflies and birds. I enjoy them so much in my garden. They do reseed with abandon, but ...Read More
I started with 3 plants about 4 years ago. It has seeded itself and now I have over 20 strong clumps that I have transplated to other lo...Read More
I have enjoyed this plant for several years now. It comes back stronger and stronger every year. I do have to remove small plants each ye...Read More
This lovely plant is truly gorgeous in combination with the yellow coneflower. Very hardy, does fine with just rain water, grows well in...Read More
This really attracts the butterfly, more than any other flower in my garden... makes a interesting "short" (3 ft) hedge when planted in a...Read More
Purple coneflower, as well as white, grows well in the burning hot dry area next to our driveway and didn't mind the snow abuse either. ...Read More
Blooms well and long late spring through fall. Very attractive to butterflies and beneficials. Easy to grow. Multiplies well.
Wonderful plant. Big daisy like blooms. Bees, birds, butterflies all love this plant as I do. In my garden I leave the stems up all winte...Read More
Plant grows well in full shade, fewer flowers, but color does not fade as quickly.
Birds are attracted to seed-heads in wi...Read More
Clump-forming, daisy like flowers in rosy purple, shades of pink and white. Grows to about 4' high with a spread of 1' to 2'. Centers are...Read More