This is my echinacea.  It grows so easily from seeds.  Just clip off the flower head, throw it on the ground, and wait a couple years.  Here's the thing about perennials:  the first year they sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap.  So you have to wait a bit, but once they get going, they grow beautifully year after year.

 

Echinacea is beautiful through several seasons:  blooming all summer, then providing food for the birds into the fall.  And we love to stick the dried seed pods into our flower pots in winter to keep the deer from eating our pansies.  Sometimes it works.

 

Try growing echinacea in your garden.  You will be glad you did.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!