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i have wanted purple coneflower for such a long time and finally got one at a 'end of summer' sale for just $3-WOW!
i planted it when i got home but now that it is very cold outside will it make it??

Cone flowers are a perennial and should be fine. In the spring they will come back and bloom again.

I live in an area where it reaches -40*C at times in winter and those coneflowers pop up in spring with a vengence...in fact they are everywhere.

so i shouldnt worry too much about them??

Heavens no, they should be fine--and if, for some strange reason, they do NOT come back--let me know and I will send you some seed from my Purple Coneflowers-
mine have been living for 12 years---2-3 years at this house and the rest at my previous home--

Do you guys think I could get these to grow in our fields? Like where we don't mow.. around our horse riding arena and such?? Wouldn't that be beautiful?? I have purple, yellow, and a salmon/coral color.. the yellow and coral ones I bought as NEW last summer.. This year I need to save some seeds and try to get them to grow around our property.. that would be just too cool!

They have always seemed hardy to me---I would plant them where ever you want them--and I agree it would be beautiful to have them in the fields---Brecks even has a green variety, if you would be interested--very nice---

I would love to do all the varieties as well--but I don't know how much i can push--I have caused DH a great amount of trimming as it is---

Well Junie, just look at it this way.. keep planting stuff and eventually he will be able to stop mowing so much!!

yea good way to look at it I think--but him, he remembers cutting a big clear clean rectangle--& now he trims around trees, bushes, flower beds & my garden---
But hey--I am happy---

(& I may do as you suggest)

WEEELLLL as long as you are happy!! Right!!

well, I would not get THAT carried away--but I am content--

LOL I am telling you.. just convince him that the more you plant, the less he has to mow.. hehe Worked with my hubby!!

Pinkhourse--I will try but I really do not think he is gonna buy it---at one time a 'zoom zoom' with the rider was all that was needed--NOW he has so much trimming with the push mower-----(mainly because of my little 'additions'.)

But as my mommy says--it doesn't hurt to ask !!!

Yeah, I know what you are saying. My husband gets irritated with me sometimes too when I want to add more plantings around the yard.. I just try to put stuff strategically so it helps him a bit instead of hindering him by causing him more work.

Good luck!

I can't wait till my new coneflowers bloom this summer.. I am anxious to see that varieties I have.. as I can't fully remember.

I irritate myself...I keep planting and dividing then later realize how hard it is to mow around everything.

I only have pink coneflowers and they multiply like crazy.

Ohhh pink!! I don't have any pink! I think I will have to get me some!!

[quote=tamara]I irritate myself...I keep planting and dividing then later realize how hard it is to mow around everything.

I only have pink coneflowers and they multiply like crazy. [/quotethere is a pink--versus the purple coneflower ?? I had no idea---
I have seen some white. and some beautiful green ones though.

There are pink coneflowers ??? as apposed to purple ??
Or are they the same flower??
I have however seen the white & the orange I believe it was---

I have also seen some of the most beautiful green ones-- :wink:

I never noticed til a couple years ago that almost everything I had planted was yellow and orange, so I've been trying to add more color to my yard and alot of the same flowers do come in different colors.

Some are pink some are purple, I'll save seeds this fall.

I've been adding yellow to my gardens. I have too much pink.

Oh Yay!! Reserve some pink ones for me please!! Maybe I can get some seeds from my Yellow one and we can swap!!

And TOO much PINK??? I have NEVER heard of such a thing!!!

OK ladies--apparently I need to make myself a Coneflower garden--so please if either of you have any Pink or yellow seeds I would be so h appy to have some.

All I would have to swap that I can say right now would be purple coneflower and red sage salvia.

Well I don't have any of the Yellow yet.. but this fall I should.. providing my flower does well this year!!

HEY YOU WERE RIGHT!!
2 THUMBS UP!!
THANZ ALOT!!
IF I COULD I'D SEND A PIX TO YA TO SHOW YA HOW THEY ARE DOIN!!
I HAD BEEN WANTING THAT PLANT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME NOW AND I FINALLY GOT 1 AND ITS SUPERB!!
BEAUTIFULLLY growing!!
I DIDNT KNOW THIS BUT THE STEMS ARE VERY TUFF N STERN N SO ARE THE CENTERS!!


O N PINKH?? I THINK IT WOULD BE STUNNING TO SEE THEM OUT IN A FIELD BY HORSES THATD BE THE PERFECT PIC!!
WE HAVE A HUGE FIELD PAST OUR BACKYARD N MY HUBS COMPLAINS BOUT MOWING IT SO THIS YEAR WE'RE LETTING SUM COME IN A BAIL HAY FOR THEMSELF BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE PRETTY TO SEE A HUGE FIELD OF WILDFLOWERS N SO WE MAY WORK TOWARD THAT NEXT YEAR (SINCE HE DOME PROMISED SUM1 IT THIS TIME ROUND)
AND HORSES WOULD JUST BE AN ADDED PLUS FOR US CAUSE 1 OF OUR LIL GIRLS JUST IS HEAD OVER HEELS INLOVE WITH THEM!!
BUT WE'LL SEE, ID LOVE TO SURPRISE HER, AND WE JUST MAY!!