Cone flower seeds in winter

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps;
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps.
~A. Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," Tablets, 1868

Even at the end of their days, the Cone flower is  photogenic

Before pulling out "finished" flowers, think of letting these seeds blowing around in the garden (if it is not a marshaled, neat, orderly one). The joy of watching  for the new seedlings can make a dreary late winter garden something to take pleasure in.