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Guide to Growing Purple Coneflowers

Echinacea purpurea

Purple Coneflowers produce large, fragrant pink flowers beginning in April and May. The three to five foot flower stalks make them an excellent background planting for your landscape, or in a butterfly garden.
They are excellent for cut flowers, lasting a week or longer after being cut. Cutting the flowers will promote an extended blooming season.

Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea

The perennial plant does best when planted in full sun in any moist, well-drained garden soil, but may also be grown in partial sun. The plant is somewhat drought resistant once established.
Coneflowers are hardy in USDA zones 3-9
Propagation is by seed, or by division in spring or fall.
Root cuttings taken in the fall may also be successful.

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