After planting this purple flower, you can see its pine cone-like flowers in summer and autumn.

If you want to raise a flowering plant that is not afraid of exposure, then echinacea is a good choice. It is suitable for planting in flower beds or flowerpots. It looks very lovely. It is a perennial flowering plant that can thrive without much care. It can provide you with lovely and charming flowers before frost.

Echinacea does not need to be taken care of frequently during conservation, and can be sowed and propagated directly. After spring is warm, seeds can be directly sowed on the soil surface and properly covered with soil. During sowing, the warm and humid environment can be watered regularly to keep the soil moist. After seeing the seedlings, the light can be seen slowly, and the growth period can grow well with as much light as possible.

Echinacea is not picky about the environment, but to maintain the good drainage of the soil, the conservation position should have sufficient light, so that it can produce brilliant flowers, and if the soil is not fat enough, you can add some mature organic fertilizer to it, or other black soil to increase the organic matter in the soil.

If you want to promote the flowering of echinacea to blossom brightly and keep it blooming continuously, it is necessary to give more than 6 to 8 hours of light every day. After the summer temperature exceeds 35 degrees, you can give proper shade, especially the echinacea cultivated in potted plants. Avoid long-term exposure.

Echinacea can also be cultivated in the north, but it should be planted in a flowerpot and moved indoors for maintenance before the frost comes, keeping the minimum maintenance temperature above five degrees, so that it can continue to blossom and grow next spring.

If you want to cultivate echinacea in the yard, you can sow directly after spring is warm. If it is in the south, you can also choose to sow in autumn, so that you can see its flowers in spring. If you are friends from the north, you can also plant pine nuts in the yard. After the branches and leaves wither in winter, you can cover the soil properly, and new buds can still grow in the coming year.

The maintenance of echinacea does not need to be taken care of often, especially after exuberant growth, but regular pruning of residual flowers and withered leaves regularly remove surrounding weeds and proper watering during long-term drought, so that echinacea can maintain exuberant growth.

During maintenance to avoid infection of diseases and insect pests, especially aphids, to avoid watering on the leaves, echinacea to maintain a certain distance, to avoid planting too dense, to avoid excessive humidity, between plants to maintain ventilation and light, weeds should be removed in time.

In order to encourage echinacea to bloom continuously, after the flowers have withered, they should be cut off in time to avoid letting them bear fruit, so that they can maintain more nutrients and strive to promote secondary flowering.

If you want to breed echinacea, you can not only pick seeds, but also propagate ramets, usually every 3-4 years, so that his plants can maintain more vitality, and ramet propagation can be carried out in spring and autumn.

In the process of cultivating echinacea, some mature manure or other slow-acting organic fertilizer can be added to the soil to effectively promote flowering. Pineal chrysanthemum cultivated in pots should choose varieties with short plants, and pay attention to checking regularly to avoid growing too high.

If you want to collect the seeds of echinacea, after its flowers are ready to bear fruit, you need to cover them with something to avoid being eaten by birds. After successful pollination, the flowers of echinacea will slowly form. In short, they can be collected after drying.

Echinacea can be cross-pollinated, which can cultivate more varieties, help to get different colors, and improve your gardening experience.