Echinacea tennesseensis SEO a pond-edge slope

a pond-edge slope

Cut the old stems to the ground in late winter

and this camellia has grown and performed well in the Woodlanders garden

oblong leaves

Echinacea tennesseensis SEO a pond-edge slopeSome plants are grown for beauty; a few are grown for the story of their survival, and Echinacea tennesseensis, the Tennessee coneflower, is one of the latter. Endemic to a handful of limestone cedar glades around Nashville, the species was once believed extinct, then rediscovered in the middle of the twentieth century clinging to those thin, sun baked soils. The Tennessee coneflower went on to become one of the first plants ever listed under the U.