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These four perennials can be planted once for reliable flowering through many autumns to come.

Three-year study seeks out top-performing coneflower varieties By Adrian Higgins The Washington Post,Updated February 21, 2021, 12:00 a.m. Email to a Friend 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 a...

Coneflower, loved by bees and butterflies, is put on trial Adrian Higgins --- Washington Post February 18, 2021 2:58 pm 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. One sun-loving prairie plant you might think needs little of all that breeder’s attention would be the purple conef...

A three-year study put dozens of varieties to the test, looking at length and abundance of bloom, general vigor and foliage ornament.