Several years ago my sister Betsy gave me a giant coneflower plant. It's been moved a couple of times and is now in my vegetable garden. It's just been sitting there being a food source for snails until this year when it's finally blooming. I had no idea that this was what they meant by GIANT. It's almost as tall as the eave of the house. It looks like the petals are a yellow color instead of the usual purple-pink of a regular coneflower. I am quite impressed with it. Another thing I think I can attribute to the colder than usual winter here. Although I think last summer's drought and then the late fall's torrential rains had a hand in it to.