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I love all cone flowers and am fortunate to have many established plants of various colors. Each fall I cut all the seed heads and crumble them up all around other parts of the garden. I know cross pollination effects other similar plants and distorts colors, will that happen to cone flowers too ?
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Hey BFVISION, I had white coneflowers next to my purple ones..
And the following year, they started turning, a pale pink, the following year they were totally pink..
I do know there is a "dominance" thing with plants, the stronger will over power the weaker...
Same for phlox, the tall variety.. I had a pale purple and a pale pink.. They lived here, for a long time, with the previous owners even.. Then one day, in an other area, a vibrant pink clump sprouted and wowwwwwwwwwww were they dominate.
Now the two other clumps that I had that were the other two colors, are now changing... The purple one is darkening... and the light pink one is developing a dark pink/magenta ring on the inside..
So yes, they can change..
What colors do you have????
bbbbbbbbb Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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I love all cone flowers and am fortunate to have many established plants of various colors. Each fall I cut all the seed heads and crumble them up all around other parts of the garden. I know cross pollination effects other similar plants and distorts colors, will that happen to cone flowers too ![[nutz]](graemlins/nutz.gif)
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