#Purple coneflower perennial how to#
How To Grow Echinacea From SeedĮchinacea is fairly easy to grow from seed. It’s a hardy herbaceous perennial, and does not really require a lot of extra care if you plant it in the right location and in the right growing conditions. Purpurea means purple in latin, and refers to the purplish petals of echinacea, although I find them to be mostly pink.
Interestingly, the name echinacea is related to the Greek word for hedgehog – echinos, due to it’s spiny central cone. It is also very easy to grow, and does really well in our zone 5b garden. This plant looks great with cottage garden companion plants, like foxgloves, delphiniums, Russian sage, lamb’s ear, and liatris. It fit in very well with my garden theme at the time, which was a cottage garden, or English country garden look. I was quite intrigued by the symmetrical designs in the cone, and took many closeup photos of the flowers. My first plant of echinacea purpurea was purchased at a garden centre many year ago, and I fell in love with it in the garden. Echinacea purpurea with such wonderful symmetry in it’s coneflower design Learn how to grow Echinacea, also known as purple coneflower, so that you can enjoy it in your perennial garden.
Not only is it a flowering plant, echinacea is also a powerful herb. Echinacea is such a pretty garden flower, with it’s colourful daisy-like petals and prominent centre cone.
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