Glowing along with the echinacea is a coreopsis. This plant was shared with me so I do not know its variety. The plant is taller and brighter than moonbeam It too is easy care in this drought tolerant garden.
Years ago I planted White Swan. You can almost see the glow.
Echinaceas are magnets for butterflies
This morning I spent a couple of hours in the back garden which is cool and fresh. People are always surprized as they enter the 33 foot arbor (see sidebar) and come into this garden. Here I enjoy dead heading. Echinaceas are scattered throughout the garden.
While checking the tomatoes I found this nice spider, doing his job.
Dear Gloria, I agree with you that Echinaceas are such colourful flowers and generally trouble free. An asset indeed to any garden and they seem to particularly thrive in the heat.
ReplyDeleteGloria your coneflowers look wonderful. Mine are a little ratty by now if they survived the rabbits. The coreopsis looks like Zagreb but I can't get close enough to see the leaves. I had no idea you got so hot where you are.
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Gloria, Your garden is beautiful. I love all the different colors of the echinacea. Take care and have a great day.
ReplyDeleteDear Edith - Yes, the echinacea are as asset in a hot garden. Does the UK get extreme heat? I know you have moisture.
ReplyDeleteHi Eileen - yes, we get hot. We get very cold, hot and dry. This is not particularly a gardening area. People grow vegetable plots but many do think of gardens. But where there is a will there is a way, we just need to find the right plants.
ReplyDeleteGarden of Threads - Thank you...I see in catalogs that there are all sorts of colors and double flowered echinaceas. I am behind in the times. You know, I didn't buy any perennials at all this year and now I am wanting something new.
ReplyDeleteThis is a dream garden for me Gloria - it is so beautiful - I think this is the best I've ever seen your front garden. Echinaceas hate my garden - come to think of it I never see them in other folks gardens either around here - they seem to last about 1 winter if you're lucky and then completely disappear - a bit like coreopsis.
ReplyDeleteI love echinacea, but have never had much luck with it, so haven't tried growing it in this garden. As it's doing so well in your drought tolerant garden, I'm now wondering if perhaps I over watered it.
ReplyDeleteI have only grown the purple variety, but would love to grow the white and see what happens when they hybridize. Your front garden is so beautiful :-)
ReplyDeleteYour echinaceas are so clean and crisp looking in the hot summer light. Radiant! I especially love the photo where the pink coneflowers peek out from the hydrangea around the little pond.
ReplyDeleteMine are awful, floppy, bug eaten, with no petals. They have never self seeded and always look distressed in my garden. Wrong place for them? Wrong kind? I have to content myself with pictures like yours.
My first garden was in Rapid City, SD. I miss the Dakotas!! Your garden is so beautiful!! I love all the coneflowers and I'm sure the butterflies do, too!
ReplyDeleteI love the white swan. My purple coneflowers are doing well in their second summer, so maybe next year I'll try some white.
ReplyDeleteRosie, LeavesBloom - We grow echinacea because we are so hot and dry, but you have wonderful flowers in Scotland. I enjoyed your Nature Trail post.
ReplyDeleteI know they are very useful in the garden, but I could have done without the spider pick. Now I'll be twitching the rest of the day;)
ReplyDeleteMy echinacea is very lazy, not one bloom yet. It seems to be one of those plants I tend to kill off...rather pathetic, isn't it?
Christine in Alaska
Gloria, your cone flowers are to die for! I can honestly never get enough of your garden!!! Now, that spider makes me shiver. I posted one about 1 or 2 weeks ago...I think they're the same, or in the same family at least considering the "writing" in the web. I appreciate them, but from a distance!
ReplyDeleteLooking good, and the spiders love you I bet. I've seen more this year than in the last few, which makes me glad.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what my summer garden would do with Echinaceas, Coreopsis, Rudbeckias and other summer plants, but I also get tired of deadheading. But, yes, that's gardening. Thanks for the reminder.~~Dee
Dear Gloria, Yes, indeed, the UK now seems to have periods of very hot, often humid, weather in the summer months. With some few exceptions, 1959 and 1976, this used not to be the case. However, the very high temperatures are unlikely to be sustained beyond a few days at a time.
ReplyDeleteGloria, All those echinaceas look wonderful, and I love the various ways you have them combined with other flowers. It's possible that your bright yellow coreopsis is 'Golden Showers;' I think that might be an older and larger version than Zagreb. Coreopsis verticillata 'Golden Showers' is one of those plants that I bought a 4" pot of about 15 years ago and have been dividing and redividing ever since. I love it.
ReplyDeleteconeflowers are one of my favorites. So nice!!
ReplyDeleteCHi Clare, Curbstone Valley Farm, yes try less water. How is Frodo? I have been following the tale of Ginger and Frodo :)
ReplyDeleteHi Noelle, thank you - I just bought a yellow and red.
ReplyDeleteHi TS, Yes, soon I will show some of the butterflys pictures that I have been taking.
ReplyDeleteHi Ginny, Yes, do try some of the white. They really do shine at dusk
ReplyDeleteHi Christine, I don't mind the garden spiders. They are usually big enough to avoid. And, they eat mosquitoes!
ReplyDeleteHi Kimberly, you are too kind. I dress covered from head to toe because of chigger, skeeters and to keep spiders off of me!
ReplyDeleteHi Dee, It sounds like we grow lots of the same flowers. But, your area is much hotter! I'm glad you appreciate the spiders.
ReplyDeleteDear Edith, thank you for the reply. I imagine the UK as lush and green.
ReplyDeleteJean, yes, I think you are right! Thank you! I googled Golden Showers and it really looks like it!
ReplyDeleteMeensync - I really appreciate coneflowers. Some years I have pulled them out even after giving many away and they still come back.
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