Hello Dingbat,
You don't live with Archie do you???
Welcome to the garden helpers forum.
Lot's of great gardeners here that'll be more than happy to help you around.
I grow a little patch of purple coneflowers, and I do know a bit, but Floweraddict is very passionate about them, he's only got about 100 of them....So, I'd definately wait for his response but for me,
I'll tell you, depends if you like the
seeds from the
flowers and to feed the birds in the winter, or gathering some for sharing, I personally don't cut my
flowers off. I guess they might reflower a bit if you dead headed them and the
flowers would still come. But for me, I pick a few and then let mother nature do the rest. She's reseeded alot and fed the birds too.
I'm not sure on the "spreading" part", but it seems my clumps get bigger and bigger.
So, happy gardening and hope this helps!!!
Weezie
