Echinacea "Sunseekers Red"

Its Wednesday so it must be coffee and cake at a garden centre with Kanyl.  Today it was Houghton Hall.  Not as floriferous as some recent visits and a lot of empty display space, presumably they are preparing for another seasonal intake of plants.

Another day when I tried to change my style of photography.  Instead I tried some "shoot through" shots and chose this one.  Echinacea (Cone flowers) are native to the American prairies.  The name is from the Greek for Hedgehog (which is why I always refer to scientific names not Latin names) because of the spiny centre of the flower.  As they are drought tolerant I suspect we may see more and more cone flowers as time goes by.