Staten Island Advance/Irving SilversteinBlack-eyed Susans pair beautifully with stately purple coneflowers. A look around my garden usually prompts me to write about something that is currently in ...

The flower of the giant coneflower, Rudbeckia maxima, consists of drooping yellow petals around a purple-brown cone — a clear echo of the blooms of other rudbeckias. But the similarity ends there.

Rudbeckia 'Herbstonne' grows almost 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It has large, sharply lobed leaves and yellow coneflowers atop swaying stems.

Pair coneflowers with baptisia, rudbeckia, liatris, helenium, helianthus, goldenrod and asters, as well as grasses.

Design a garden filled with colorful wildflowers to attract butterflies and other pollinators from spring through fall. Grow ...

Black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia) and coneflowers (Echinacea) are from two different genera, and one can't morph into the other.

Cut-leaf coneflower grows throughout Minnesota, especially in moist, shady areas including flood plains, swamps and stream banks. When flowering, the plants can grow more than 6 feet tall.

One of the people-stopping perennial plants is the giant coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima). The plant has large, 24-inch-long by 10-inch-wide, silvery, blue-green leaves that are similar in texture to ...

Orange coneflowers have yellow petals with a bit of an orange tinge that surrounds a brown-purple central seed head and grows well in poorly drained clay soil. The Latin is Rudbeckia fulgida.

The coneflower can be used as a component in any sunny border, as an accent, or massed with other perennials as well as shrubs. Unless it is fed or watered excessively, it remains upright without ...