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Three-year study seeks out top-performing coneflower varieties
By Adrian Higgins The Washington Post,Updated February 21, 2021, 12:00 a.m.
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The long-flowering native purple coneflower emerges in June. Other coneflowers await the curious gardener. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Adrian HigginsAdrian Higgins/The Washington Post
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 excessive coddling.
Enter plant hybridizers, patient and ever ready to fix weaknesses and to appeal to the gardener s lust for showier flowers in new colors.