How to Use purple coneflower in a Sentence

purple coneflower

noun

• This summer, take a stance and plant some purple coneflowers.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 24 June 2019
• Take the purple coneflower, one of the champions of the sunny perennial garden.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• For an easy street-side garden plan, feature native plants such as Aster, Baptisia, and purple coneflower.
  — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022
• The most common is purple coneflower, but they are being cultivated in an ever-widening range of pinks and purples.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 30 June 2022
• Instead: For a long-lasting punch of purple in the garden, plant native purple coneflower or blazing star instead of purple loosestrife.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2020
• For example, the Rain Garden mix will include such species as blue flag iris, purple coneflower, cardinal flower and New England astor.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Plant giveaways include native prairie plants and wildflowers such as common and swamp milkweed, gray-headed and purple coneflower, cup plant and rosinweed.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
• According to a village news release, the MWRD provided biosolid soil that was used for planting native species like milkweed and purple coneflower that are tolerant of salt and pollutants washed in from the street.
  — Gary Gibula, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
• Growing to about 2-3-feet tall and happy in hot, sunny sites, purple coneflower produces bright purple and magenta flowers with yellow centers.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2021
• Violets or dogwood in spring, raspberries or purple coneflower in summer, goldenrod or asters in fall — the options are numerous and varied to fit in any garden.
  — Carol Flynn, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2021
• Good native flowers to consider include wild columbine, wild bergamot, pale purple coneflower, asters and goldenrods, Steinhauer said.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• Another wildflower in most seed mixes marketed for the Texas area is purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• About 20 different types of plants including butterfly-weed and purple coneflower were planted.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 17 May 2018
• An underused species is the Tennessee purple coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis), whose pale pink petals radiate but do not overlap.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• The peregrine falcon, the humpback whale, the Tennessee purple coneflower and the Florida manatee all would very likely have disappeared without it, scientists say.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Her natives include purple coneflower, ironweed, joe pye weed, stiff goldenrod, obedient plant and blue lobelia.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2021
• What started with grass, fill dirt and an antique bell has blossomed into a beautiful garden bursting with a rainbow of colors from species such as daylilies, wisteria, zinnia, purple coneflower, lavender and popcorn plant.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2019
• Fire provides an additional advantage for the narrow-leaved purple coneflower, as Wagenius and his colleagues saw.
  — Popular Science, 29 Jan. 2020
• Catmint is usually stocked alongside popular perennial plants such as purple coneflower and yarrow.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2022
• The group includes milkweed, purple coneflower, Mexican sunflower, zinnias, parsley, dill, rue, butterfly weed and more.
  — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• To attract bees and other pollinators, Saska recommends choosing flowers with a composite shape, like zinnias, cosmos, daisies, sunflowers, and purple coneflower.
  — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024