Gowen Gardens & Nursery

Echinacea (ek-in-AY-shee-ah) Learn more from NC State Extension. .

Ripened maypops can be eaten fresh off the vine or made into jelly. Showy flowers are edible, best used as a garnish.

Attracts butterflies & other pollinators. Perfect for a rain garden; has a strong presence in garden.

Attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; truly a pollinator favorite. Spreads in sunny garden. Leaves and flowers used for tea.

Native perennial pink or red summer blooms that attract pollinators, and can be used as tea.

Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that are fast spreading for meadow, naturalized areas.

Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that reach five to eight feet tall.

Native Perennial with red summer blooms that hummingbirds love.