Echinacea, commonly referred to as coneflowers, are beloved by cottage gardeners and butterfly enthusiasts alike. The large daisy-like flowers with mounded heads and showy rose or pink rays (petals) ...

With the new stay-at-home Missouri order, we should all have time to get a good garden plan implemented. One thing to consider in your garden this year, if you haven’t already, is echinacea also known ...

Coneflowers, or echinacea as they're also known, are a familiar sight with their large, plum purple and dusky pink daisy-like flowers blooming from July to October. They are the stars of the show in ...

Do you know which herb has been raised to the ranks of a popular perennial flower and given acknowledgment by the National Garden Bureau? This plant has never been considered super glamorous and is ...

Echinacea plants are one of my garden favorites — durable, hardy, bee and butterfly friendly. Commonly known as coneflower, they come in a variety of colors, not just purple. According to the ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Nine species of ...

The holiday season is over and it’s time to turn our attention back to gardening. For some of us that attention never wavers, but this time of the year is always an exciting one for me as we get to ...

The purple coneflower’s scientific name is Echinacea purpurea. Echinacea is derived from the Greek word, echina, meaning hedgehog, referring to the spiny center cone of the cone flower. The purple ...