Archive for January, 2010

Echinacea(s) Extraordinaire – Coneflowers go High Style

Juniper in winter garb

Beautiful big snowstorm on Sunday, not predicted but not minded. Glittering blanket smoothing the world, nowhere to go but a chair by the fire and nothing to do but read and try not to eat leftover cookies – until it was time to shovel a foot of it off the driveway.

Today it’s still bliss-productively white, white white everywhere. Including in my head where after Sunday’s catalog wallow I’m looking eagerly ahead to spiffing up the white garden

A corner of the white garden (in Maine)

and that brings us to the story of my adventures with Fragrant Angel,

echinacea 'Fragrant Angel'

'Fragrant Angel'

in all respects except one an enormous improvement over good old White Swan.

White Swan

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