Coneflower or Echinacea – the best thing for your bed
There are few things more exciting for gardeners at this time of year than dreaming of new plants. Ill focus on a few of the better plants in the next few weeks but lets start with the best example of new breeding.
Our old North American native friend Echinacea or purple coneflower is really letting loose this coming spring. The work of several major plant-breeding houses is coming to the market and while the plants will be expensive, they are wonderful. The double flowering Razzmatazz with its double pink flowers are quite hardy as well as gorgeous. It will be complemented by Doppelganger a coneflower that puts one blossom right on top of the first, resembling an apartment of flowers rather than a single bloom. Note that this double-decker flower usually comes into its own in the second year. This one has caught the imagination of the nursery trade almost as much as Sparkler a variegated leaf coneflower. The variegation in Sparkler is flecked throughout the leaf while the variegation in the equally new Prairie Frost is a broad band of cream around each leaf.
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