Re: purple coneflower

> <<  Do you find that the coneflowers show a lot of variation in the
>  flowers--some of my self sows have thin spindly petals and less color than
>  the others.  Do other people notice this ?  I think I'll just have to pull
>  up an throw away the poorer bloomers--Judy Warner >>

> Echinacea does not come true to type from seed, so what you are experiencing 
> is normal.  The cultivars, such as 'Bright Star' and 'Magnus', have brighter 
> colored flowers.  Their seedlings will naturally revert to the species.  Even 
> if you are growing the straight species, there will be a lot of seedling 
> variation.  It's easy enough to rogue out the undesirable seedlings.  But 
> coneflowers are easy to propagate by division or root cuttings, and with 


I am just getting first-time flowers from seed I sowed of a white 
Echinacea ('White Swan' I think). They are all pink flowering. There 
is one plant a week behind the others which may yet turn out to be 
white, but I was surprised at the very large proportion which turned 
out to be pink.

 Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, Min temp: -8

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