coneflowers plus

Echinacea in full bloom. There's five or six flowers per plant, and I'm really hoping to fill this area of the back bed in with more. If I do a full tray of seedlings and end up with just half a dozen to make it through their fist winter each year- well, eventually it will look like what I envision.

Closeup.

Astilbe (done blooming) and daisies in the background.

Rudbeckia (black-eyed susan) next to the echinacea is flowering now, too- didn't get a focused picture though.