Last summer, I purchased my first echinacea plants. I’ve particularly enjoyed watching this one grow. It gets more sun than the other two and the difference is remarkable. One attribute that I find fascinating is that it has blossoms in so many stages of development at the same time. I am also enjoying the fact that the plant has at least four times the number of flowers-in-the-making than it did last year.
None of these flowers are fully developed yet. I look forward to showing you what it becomes. I also am anticipating looking at the flowers under the microscope. The shots I took last year were spectacular.
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Wow!
So utterly amazing these echinaceas are.
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Yes they are.
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I love the color. I have only seen magenta flowers
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I have one of those too…. but there are no blooms yet. There is too much shade I think. The echinacea fields at Amma’s Chicago center all all magenta.
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The indeed are spectacular this year, too. The blooms (colors) look wonderful.
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great – you have the yellow and red ones… most of the wild variety here is purplish and they literally grow like weeds and will simply take over whole areas if allowed… J/Aditi
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I have two small echinacea plants- one is yellow and one is reddish-purple. All of the photos in this post are from a different plant; one that has orange flowers. The orange isn’t visible in the earliest stages of development. It is the plant I used to take the microscopic photos last year. So far there are no flowers on the smaller plants.
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