Will they look good their first year and last?
are they very expensive this way?
how long do they last (bloom)?
2007-02-24 01:52:09 · 6 answers · asked by Charles R 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The purple coneflower is a great plant, has a long bloom period and will naturalize if you do not have clay soils, do not dead-head, and use a natural mulch.
Just a word of caution: The coneflower color spectrum has exploded with new plants in a wide palette of colors. Beware of the mangos, yellows, sunbrites, sunsets, etc. These are hybrid plants and will not seed true to type. If you allow them to self-seed you will get a wide range of leggy and most likely, inferior plants that do not resemble the mother plant. Stick with the original white and purple plants,
2007-02-24 03:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by olivia54984 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Potted purple coneflowers which you buy from the nursery are relatively inexpensive and are already a few seasons old so they can have an immediate effect in the garden. Planting them (I assume you mean by seed) is cheaper but takes a season or 2 for them to become established in the garden. They bloom later in the season and last for a couple months. They're a great plant.
Good Luck!
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2007-02-24 02:02:37 · answer #2 · answered by riverbirch12345 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With my coneflower, I mixture golden rod, JoePye weed, sizeable blue loberlia and decorative grasses. I even have miniature roses in front of the coneflower and that they provide the impression of being in basic terms super. desirable little pink and pink roses against the colour of the purple coneflower. The Joe Pye weed is at the back of the goldenrod. I additionally mixture in annuals like cosmos and snapdragons. that's a incredibly look. I even have a marginally super clump of zebra striped decorative grass off to the ingredient.
2016-10-16 09:29:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I did. When you get the plants you get instant results. They will bloom the first year and the blossoms last a long time. Even when the petals fall off the seeds remain and gold finches love them. Bear in mind they like lots of sun, grow to 3-4 feet and do spread.
Wonderful, easy to grow perennial!
2007-02-24 02:06:35 · answer #4 · answered by Patricia S 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Too much attention needed from seed. Plants you buy are 1/ there straight away to enjoy. 2/ easy to weed round 3/ are probably stronger than the ones you would get from seed 4/ are easier to feed , being older. HTH LOL
2007-02-24 02:00:33 · answer #5 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They will be a little more expensive..but worth it if you buy good well established plants.
2007-02-24 02:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by Afi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋