Echinacea

If you combine it with high grass, e.g. Miscanthus sinensis, this is very elegant combination! I like white Echinacea too.

I am planning on putting this in a perennial border with other echinaceas, switch grass, a seven-son tree, butterfly bushes and a couple Hydrangea paniculata 'Vanilla-fraise'. I might put at least one of my Leptodermis plants in there too. I like all the echinacea varieties, they tolerate the hot-dry spells well and add a ton of color.

Well, that sounds like very beautiful perennial border. Although I do not know, what does it mean seven-son-tree. Do you know that Echinacea was one of the most used medicinal plants by American Indians?

Seven-son tree is a small tree/large shrub that flowers toward the end of summer. It's a very attractive tree, I have some pictures in my "garden" section on this site. It is listed under its botanical name: Heptacodium miconioides.

OK. Will have a look.:)