Echinacea with monarch

What a perfect capture!

That would make nice desktop wallpaper!

Julie

OK, lots of pictures to post on this one! I love my echinacea!

Sunrise and Pink Double Delight Echinacea

Summer Sky and Twilight Echinacea
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Harvest Moon Echinacea
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Fatal Attraction Echinacea

'Sunset' Echinacea
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'Green Envy' Echinacea (just opening)
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'Ruby Star' Echinacea with a Red Admiral
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Echinops 'Artic Glow'

'Elegans' Hosta (my biggest one, so far)

Goodness sakes, Margo,
You certainly have a nice collection of "Purple Cone Flowers", some I've never heard of, too.
I just planted E. 'Sunset' this year, but it hasn't bloomed yet.

Thanks for sharing!

Here's an "E" Hosta, 'Emerald Tiara':

Julie

Beautiful flowers!
Aka Margo I absolutely love your 'Sunset' Echinacea and Green envy and Echinops 'Artic Glow' Where do you get those I haven't run across them yet in my searches.

Julie, what is that you have behind to the left of your ruby star? It's probably obvious, but like I said I am so new at this I can't identify too many plants yet. I just bought the Ruby star myself and am trying to plan what else I need to get to put around coneflowers hmmm..... maybe I should have just started a new thread

Carrie...

The plant behind the Echinecea, 'Ruby Star' is a Sedum, but the name isn't labeled on my map, so I don't know what cultivar it is. I know it's not 'Autumn Joy', but something else pink. It will bloom later, after the Purple cone fls are finished.

Julie

Carrie,
I ordered both the Green Envy and the Artic Glow Echinops. The Echinops I recieved from Bluestone Perennials last year and the Green Envy (and a lot of my other coneflowers) came from Garden Crossings (whom has awesome plants) this year.

Thanks I'll have to add them to my someday wish list :)

Evening Primrose

Nice close-up!

Now that one I've never seen, and you'd think I would, living in the country. I understand it grows in dry old fields and roadsides, as a biennial. Do you grow it in your garden?

Julie

I have several Primrose. This one blooms in the evening, it's a perennial. Very cool plant.

Here's a shot of the whole plant.