Posts tagged native plants
How to Grow Echinacea (Purple Coneflower) for the Cutting Garden

One of the first flowers I ever grew from seed were purple coneflowers - Echinacea purpurea, the poster child of the North American native plant movement and a key species in everything from pollinator gardens to giant prairie plantings everywhere.

It’s a great plant to grow - doing well in even the worst conditions of poor soil, hot humid summers, freezing cold winters, and will support itself with long strong stems and a great upright habit. It will support a great variety of native pollinators, grows well nearly everywhere and is a robust and hardy perennial that will reward you with long flowering stems year after year.

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