Echinacea is such a wonderful plant, both for its beautiful flowers and its medicinal qualities. I've added several more to the garden this summer. I have a hard time passing them up when I am at Lowe's. They seem to follow me home!
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Great article Trish! I'm wondering if E. purpurea will transplants well ... I plan to give it a try and see. We're getting ready to put our rental house on the market to sell so I want to dig some of the Echinacea and bring them over here ... I miss those flowers!
~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!
I would think this is a tough time of year to be transplanting, but they are tough plants! Some of mine are going to seed: if yours are, pluck a few off just in case your transplants don't make it. They are so easy from seed!!
I have grown them from seed before and will collect seeds if there are any when I go over there this afternoon and I think I'll pot a couple up too and see if I can keep them alive. I'm not sure how long the seeds remain viable but I should go through my stash and see if I perhaps already have some.
~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!
I know the feeling!!
