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Easy steps to grow and care the purple coneflower

A very- low maintenance landscape flower plant, Coneflower is a very good choice to have in your yard as well. 

It is heat tolerant, perennial, and blooms flowers for at least a month when the season comes.

Here, I'll give you an easy method to grow and care for purple coneflower at the beginner level. Just remember one thing, don't expect fast results while growing purple coneflower from seed germination to blooming flowers. 

Growing purple coneflower in landscaping 

The main purpose of growing coneflowers is to attract birds, purple catchy color, Bloom longer, and look good for long-time landscaping purposes.

Growing violet coneflowers in USA

You need to be specific while growing coneflowers with climate and season. But let's see what are its features and what it looks like. 

Features of coneflower 

  • Size- 3 to 5 feet tall
  • Flowers- Single stem plant with distinct petals around, dark round center
  • Color- Purple pinkish flower petals, dark brown center
  • Nature- Perennial 
  • Time to bloom- 1.5 to 2 years

Growing conditions of purple coneflower

  • Climate conditions 

Moderate to warm climate conditions are good for coneflower growing. Dry conditions are ideal for coneflower but drought is not so good for a long time. 

If you live in a cool climate where too cold winter and snowfall are usual, you shouldn't consider purple coneflower to grow in your landscape. 

  • Season of growing 

The best season for growing violet coneflower is spring season as usual with most landscaping flowers. This plant needs some time for germination and further growth which is easiest in the summer season. 

Although, if you're living in a cold climate, early summer to mid-spring is good but still in later stages, cold may disturb the overall growth of the coneflower plants. 

  • Flower blooming season

Violet coneflower start blooming after at least 1.5 years to 2 years. The specific time of flowers blooming starts in June. Flowers can bloom and end till the end of August. 

Don't expect flowers to bloom for more than 2 months if plants are living in difficult situations. 

  • Soil type 

Like other landscaping flowers, a well-drained rich soil is good enough to sow seeds of purple coneflower. 

Soil should not be compacted or too sandy, except this, most of the soil is good. 

Requirements

Tools required

  • Planter tool
  • Spraying bottle

Materials required 

  • Garden soil 
  • Compost
  • Coneflower seeds

Steps to grow coneflower

Step 1- Prepare ground and soil for seeds

Start with preparing the soil in your yard landscape area. For coneflower, you need to prepare a rich soil mixture and enough fertility in the soil before sowing seeds. 

For that, you need to take a soil mixture of 2:2:1 of garden soil, compost, and sand in the yard. Spray some water to keep moisture in the soil before sowing.

Step 2- Sowing seeds and germination 

Now, you can start scattering seeds in the plowed soil-prepared area. 

Either scatter seeds evenly or one by one on a gap. Cover them with the same soil mixture about half an inch. 

Keep moisture in the soil till seeds start germination. Don't spray water a day after sowing seeds and till the start of germination. If temperature and sunlight are good, seeds will start germination within 3 weeks. 

Step 3- Further growth of coneflower

After 3 to 4 weeks, seeds will start germination and turn into young plants with a single stem. As I mentioned above, coneflower grows for at least a year before producing and flower blooming. 

Let them grow further and keep the irrigation and fertilization maintenance of the plants. Care your plants till 3 to 4 feet tall and then you can expect a couple of months more for flowers if the season is close. 

Step 4- Irrigation and fertilization

Though violet coneflowers are drought tolerant and habitable to dry weather, they still need irrigation on time. 

So you can keep soil moisture if it is getting dry faster. Just touch the soil with your fingers and check the moisture. Roughly you can irrigate once in a week on ordinary days but twice if the temperature is increased over 80F. 

Don't irrigate your coneflower plants in winter or during the rainy season. 

Fertilization is not required because these plants don't get stressed without fertilization if once you used it initially. 

Step 5- Winterization of plants

In winter, if the temperature drops drastically and is too cold outside, then you may need to winterize your coneflower plants to protect them from cold. 

You can use a winterization blanket or cover to adjust the temperature for plants inside it. 

When the following spring will come, you can remove it after the end of the frost. 

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