Echinacea purpurea is native to eastern North America. It is a perennial that is pollinated by butterflies and bees. Grows best in full sun to partial shade. The Purple Coneflower is one of my favorite perennial garden plants. They spread each year and produce many seeds to sow and share. The coneflowers are butterfly magnets and I think every garden should have purple coneflowers!
I have been very impressed with Cheyenne Spirit. I've been growing both the red and the yellow since 2012, and they are without a doubt, the most vigorous Echinacea plants I own. Cheyenne Spirit is the first to leaf out the and the first to bloom. In my garden, the red is a shorter plant than the yellow, but both are great. These plants have lots of blooms with wonderful vibrant color that can be seen from a distance. They bloom a long time too. This variety is really noteworthy in all its characteristics. Highly recommended!
Winner of 2010 AAS flower award. Comes back true from seed.
I have been growing 'White Swan' for 3 years from seeds I harvest from my own plants & they have come true from seed every time!
Magnus is one of my favorite coneflowers. I have been growing it, since 1998 when it won the Plant Perennial of the Year award. Always beautiful and reliable year after year. I think if I could have just one coneflower variety to grow, that this would be it. Butterflies love to landing on the cones and with the purple Liatris that is growing with Magnus, it is a colorful butterfly banquet in my garden.
Have had these in my garden for 4 years. Originally purchased from Santa Rosa Gardens, have divided and transplanted in the fall with complete success. Well over 32 inches, leggy and prone to breaking in our July windstorms. Also a particular favorite of the Japanese Beetles who eat the petals (sigh). I removed these last fall to make way for Daylilies, but I will miss them. Glorious, glowing blooms, tough and vigorous plant. Also a unique fragrance, exotic and spicy. If you want to try the hybrids, this is one that won't disappoint.
These are nice, compact plants that have excellent basal branching. They are also very hardy and reliable.
This plant has a nice fragrance similar to roses.
Pink Double Delight is a beautiful little ech. Shorter than many others, it stands up much better than my taller echs, which get knocked over in storms. This little beauty has never needed staking in the two years that I have had it in my zone 6 yard. (Many of my taller echs do require plant supports.)
Also known as Big Sky Harvest Moon.
