The first Cheering Up Mondays flower of September and something that always shouts autumn to me.
I’m actually rather pleased to see this as I struggle to get them to stay in my garden. I’ve planted a few over the years and they never returned the following year, until now. A welcome sight.
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They like moist soil and droop if it dries out. It’s echinacea that won’t last more than a year in my Gloucestershire garden. In Charles Dowding’s no-dig garden in Somerset, echinacea flourish, like everything else he grows.
I struggle with lots of the daisy-like flowers – rudbeckia, helenium, echinacea. They just never reappear in the spring.
I have exactly the same problem! Such a pity because they are all fabulous late summer flowers.
Yes, it’s really annoying.