For a more natural look, grow native pale purple coneflowers as wildflowers for butterflies. Wild Violet Viola spp. These ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

Using Coneflowers In The Garden With the exception of the sweet coneflower (Rudbeckia subtomentosa) which prefers moist soil, most coneflowers are excellent options for drought tolerant pollinator ...

You can grow coneflowers in most garden soils, provided they receive plenty of sun. The tallest, Rudbeckia Herbstsonne (Autumn Sun), at 2.5 m, would tower above the heads of a basketball team.

Rudbeckia (coneflower, black-eyed Susan) The gold standard for years has been ‘Goldsturm,’ a vigorous, summer-blooming mound to about 2-feet tall and wide.

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.

Known more as a medicinal herb and by its Latin name, coneflower or Echinacea is a delightful prairie wildflower that works just as well in refined home gardens.

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 ...