Echinacea purpurea 'PowWow White'

This nicely compact hybrid features lots and lots of pure white blooms with large, golden yellow cone centres.

Extend their life by leaving the flowers on the stem over the winter. They will provide seeds and a perch for any brave birds out and about at that time. Leaving the stems and flowers until springtime has many benefits, like the one above, and if you cut the stems they can act like a straw and funnel the water down into the root, possibly rotting the crown. Leaving the stem and the flower until spring time can avoid this possibility. Echinaceas are excellent, long-blooming flowers that are excellent massed in the border, meadows, native plant gardens, naturalized areas and wildflower gardens. They are bee magnets and provide long-lasting colour throughout the summer.