We were so excited for spring and the plants that come with it, we just couldn’t wait for the weather to catch up. During the month of March, we pitted some of our favorite rain garden plants against each other, and asked you to vote for the best. There were some close calls, but in the end you picked purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) as your number one rain garden plant! Scroll down to see all the plants that competed in this tournament as well as the bracket with the results from each round.
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Meet our competitors!
Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Queen of the prairie (Filipendula rubra)
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Wood poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum)
Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
Lady fern (Athyrium felix-femina)
Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Gray’s sedge (Carex grayi)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)
Check out the full bracket
Congratulations to our final winner, purple coneflower, and a big thank you to everyone who voted in this competition!
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