On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:42:32 -0400, Judy Cosler opined:

2 questions:
1. something has eaten the petals off some of my coneflowers. a
squirrel or ????

2. is there any thing i can feed them to make them more purple. they
are really PINK! do they react to the ph level the way some
hydrangeas do??

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There are several new varieties of echinacea now, one of which is a rather pale
purple to pink. I have several of them. They cannot change color. I have a
very large stand of them in many places on my property and two years ago the
grasshoppers got them bad. I started using Nosema locustae aka Nolo Bait (a
biological control for grasshoppers) and I have not seen more than a dozen
hoppers on the property.

Victoria


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