Coneflowers
only half a dozen varieties of echinacea on offer and all were selections of the American prairie perennial , of which ‘Magnus’ was a favourite. Then American plant breeders got to with a rarely seen yellow-flowered species, . The result was plants with the large, broad-petalled flowers of in a range of bright and colourful tones created by genes of the yellow coneflower. A flood of them appeared on the market – and most of them died in their first winter.
