Texas Gardening: I need y'all to help me ID these two plants, please. , 0 by podster

podster wrote:
Yes, those came from me... They are an annual that will reseed. It is wheat Celosia or Celosia spicata. It will grow quite tall and do all right with minimal care. I love the color of the foliage and the bloom. Those seeds were sent by MidSouth DGr Corgimom.

Is this photo the purple coneflower you have, LouC? It is a perennial and will not really produce a ton of blooms in the first year. The saying on perennials is the first year they sleep, the second year they creep and the third year they leap. These have been here for a long time....