This is my beautiful Echinacea.  I nearly chose these for birthday flowers, but they are just too messy.  Look how they have overtaken the stairs.  Last year we didn't have any at all, because the deer ate them all, but this year we put up a gate to protect them.  The deer can't get to them, and we can't get to the stairs, so they have just gone wild!!  

 

Messy, but still pretty!!!  And the goldfinches love picking out the seeds.

 

 

WE ARE HAPPY GARDENERS!!!