Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I know…you’ve seen my purple coneflowers before. More than once. I can’t help myself though…Echinacea is the backbone of my summer garden, loved by me, bees and butterflies. Mostly I have E. purpurea in various shades of purple but also the white flowering variety and Pale Purple Coneflower – Echinacea pallida, which self seeds as […]
Garden photos taken in the summer to ward away the winter blues.
A fallen Cleome and too many coneflowers are a great excuse to make a vase of cut flowers.
Echinacea do not go gentle into that good night.They fade, thinking perhaps their petals are tree leaves. Maples? Oaks? Shades of pink, orange, tired looking old looking purple…before crinkly brittle brown edges appear, spread, engulf…fall.