Echinacea purpurea 'Leuchtstern': the petals look like a pink Hawaiian grass skirt on a dancer FEW plants rival the beauty, garden value and historical interest of the purple coneflower. One of the ...

What: Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ or purple coneflower. Extraordinarily heavy flowering makes ‘Magnus’ a choice coneflower to add to the garden. Why: Profuse large flowers cover this deciduous ...

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‘It’s the most beautiful coloring I’ve ever seen,” Hank Siudyla says of the pink-to-peach-to-orange blooms of ‘Sundown’ echinacea in his Deerfield garden, which won the Glorious Gardens Contest for ...

The Perennial Plant Association has named the purple coneflower cultivar ‘Magnus’ as the perennial plant of the year for 1998. Known botanically as Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus,’ this cultivar and ...

Coneflowers (Echinacea) are perennials that offer weeks of color from early summer through early autumn. But they have benefits beyond their beauty: these daisy-like flowers attract pollinators like ...

The ongoing love affair with coneflowers is only growing stronger with the introduction of so many new varieties. Native to central and eastern North America, echinaceas are hardy sun and heat ...

"There is a whole wave of these flowers to the point that, even as a grower, I get confused," says Bill Hendricks, president of Klyn Nurseries, a wholesaler in Perry. "There is just so many of them." ...