Cone Flowers and Gold Finches

Lots of rosy coneflowers are in all corners of my yard.  They spread too much from old plants and from thousands of seeds.  They bloom in late summer when other flowers are gone.

I never have decided why the garden people call these purple echinacea.  They are echinacea, but they certainly are a bright rose color.  I have also had a white coneflower, but they are not as hardy as the passalong ones, which have been shared for generations.

The gold finches love coneflower seed.  Therefore I leave ugly old coneflowers all around long past the time they need to be cut back.