With its daisy-like petals and distinctive cone-shaped centers, the coneflower (Echinacea spp.) is the star of many a nature-forward yard, as well as the number one flower you should be adding to your ...

Snow cone coneflower (Echinacea 'Snow Cone') traces its heritage to the long-lived, eastern coneflower species (Echinacea tennesseensis) and shares its penchant for returning every year. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selecting coneflower varieties is a tricky decision – but a beautiful one. This prairie queen of flowers is a dynamic choice for ...

A woman admiring a bunch of coneflowers growing - AJacobsohn/Shutterstock Whether you love cutting beautiful flowers in the summer for your table or want to add vibrant color to a drab part of your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) do best in full sun, which is 6 or more hours of direct sunlight per day. This plant tolerates a ...

Do you like the ease of adding low-maintenance perennials to your garden? If so, purple coneflower might be the perfect plant for you. There are so many pluses to this native plant that effortlessly ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Nine species of ...

Have you ever wandered into a friend or family member's garden and asked what on earth those glorious cone-shaped flowers were in the corner? Often surrounded by bees and butterflies, coneflowers ...

Purple coneflower is a low-maintenance native perennial plant that provides environmental benefits. It attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies, while its seeds feed birds like goldfinches. This ...

Wildflowers have long presented a quandary for gardeners. Their natural purity is sometimes too pure. The stems are weak, the flowers are small and fleeting, and the plants often melt away with ...

The Tennessee coneflower is proof that much of nature might yet recover — if we commit ourselves to change. A wild Tennessee coneflower.Credit...William DeShazer for The New York Times Supported by By ...