Sombrero Hot Coral Coneflower
Echinacea x purpurea
'Balsomcor'
(ek-in-AY-shee-a)
(pur-PUR-ee-uh)
We planted this 2012
introduction last summer and it performed well. It is a quite stocky and
compact variety with a brilliant flower color (only partially represented
here). In fact the color completely overwhelmed the camera and the saturation
and levels had to be adjusted in Photoshop.
I am not sure how much
further out of control Coneflower breeding can get but surely we must be
getting close to the pinnacle. It seems every year a couple more
hybrids/cultivars make it to the market. Here is a link to a page with a lot of
cultivars: Darwin Plants Coneflowers
Finishing up the discussion
on the groundcover Lamium here is the Sunday bonus snapshot. This cultivar is a
tidy garden citizen that shows off the silvery center of it leaves.
Spotted Dead Nettle
Lamium maculatum ‘Orchid
Frost’
(LAY-mee-um) (mak-yuh-LAH-tum)
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