A purple Echinacea (purple coneflower) from Ms. Erin Ireland's garden!

A purple Echinacea (purple coneflower) from Ms. Erin Ireland's garden. A yellow lanced Coreopsis is in the background.

I finally got my first purple Echinacea! The rain and sun beat her up (and a couple leaf eating insects), but there are two other blooms developing on the same plant!

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A vibrantly colored Blanketflower, which has a deep red-orange center with bright orange petals that fade to a golden yellow at the tips.

Check out the gorgeous Blanketflower that showed up in my bed of Lanced Coreopsis this morning!

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