Organic. Period.

This is October, the end of the season for the Purple Coneflower. This plant is the echinacea plant, with medicinal uses.

You can propagate coneflowers by dividing the clumps and transplanting them, or you can plant the seeds.

Notice in the photo that there are attractive round seed heads. The seeds look like zinnia seeds, and come off the head easily. Plant them in the spring, or if you have not dead-headed the plants earlier in the fall, you can take the early seeds and plant them in the late summer. Mulch the baby plants well over the winter if you plant this way.

These plants will self-seed if you just let them go wild. I have trouble with birds eating the seeds, though. Goldfinches love them, and so do titmice.   I lost some plants to a downed tree last summer, and I will save some seed to plant next spring.

(Regular four-legged mice also like the seeds, and will climb a dried flower arrangement to get them. It seemed like a good idea at the time…)

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