Please submit your comment as plain text. Faced with anĮver-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including When to Plant Purple Coneflower in Houston, TX One of the first steps you take when you are getting a good idea your gardening schedule is find your USDA Zone info. To these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and ifĪppropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Leave feedback about this particular page. I welcome comments about my web pages feel free to use the form below to Seed for 'Double Decker' from '06 trade.Seed for 'Doppleganger' from '05 trade.The first seedlings appeared after three days at room temperature. My experience is, that no cold treatment is needed for germination. Visitors to this page have left the following comments Maya Reichling - Germany PlantLinks to other web pages about Echinacea purpurea We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well) we don't grow it in Houston. We haven't tried any of the new hybrid echinaceas with orangey-salmony colors, so I was surprised to see this bloom in an area where plain purple ones previously grew. The real thing is undoubtedly more attractive. Not a thing of great beauty, but OK as curiosities go. One exception is offspring from 'Doppleganger' (also marketed as 'Double Decker') in their third season in our garden, our plants are indeed sprouting some silly petals from the central cone. Unfortunately, those seeds seldom come true, so for the most part we just have a whole bunch of purple coneflowers that are different in ways too subtle to notice (see the different flower shapes in the photo at top right). Cone-shaped flowers fade to black seed heads which persist into fall - birds love them! Through the years we've tried several named varieties, purchased as plants from nurseries - and even more seed-grown varieties, sprouted from seeds labeled with their parents' names. For starting indoors, give two months cold, then germinate at room temperature. Two first-year plants, flowering out of sync with their older brethren, in late October
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |