Coneflowers

[Excavator]

One Spring, we bought a small Coneflower plant to place beside a parking spot. The pot came with two plants in it, neither was flowering. By late Fall, we figured out the large plant was a weed, and the nearly dead plant was our Coneflower. I guess they came back pretty well, the bumble-bee stays on them all day. If we move, this one goes with us.

 

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[davesx]

Nice looking flowers and pretty hardy by the sound of it.
and anything that attracts bees is good.
Dave.

 

[Excavator]

Yep Dave, I'm going to take these out to the farm and get them started alongside the road. Along with some Daisies and Black-eyed Susans, maybe. (some kind of bug is eating ours this year)

Lawnmowers have ruined the countryside. Where roads were once lined with the Daisy, Black-Eyed Susan, Queen Ann's Lace, and Clover, we have 3" grass. Everyone has a riding mower and tractor, and they just keep mowing. Yes, the fields and yards look very nice all manicured, but the wildflowers are gone. Now, if you don't mow, you just get weeds.

And if it wasn't the homeowners cutting down the 'good stuff', it would be the highway dept. with their boom mowers. Around here, if you happen to have something you're trying to grow within reach of the boom mower, you have to post signs stating "No Mow!"

Never was much of a flower guy, but that's changed with age, I finally learned to stop and enjoy nature to it's fullest.

 

[flyinguy]

they dry out and keep for ever. also they make echinasiasa or some thing like that. i've grown them and are fun.

 

[rmptr]

Ditto, Excavator...

Never was much for flowers in the past... good a place as any to stop the truck and wet the wheel.

Now I water 'em!

Never seen those 'coneflowers' out here on the left coast. They must be right flowers!

Nice flowers, I like 'em.

Best

 

[Excavator]

Ditto, Excavator...

Never was much for flowers in the past... good a place as any to stop the truck and wet the wheel.

Now I water 'em!

Something like this?

 

[rmptr]

Nice rig EXc,

Is that yours?

...Took this yesterday....

 

[Excavator]

My favorite Pete w/Fontaine trailer, but the CAT went to a southern Ohio CAT store, if I recall.

Your shot looks like a pipeline job. Also looks like the operator is trying to keep his pile off of highway 101.

Hey flyingguy, ever try to plant the seeds? Any tips?