This coneflower has it all starting with large 5-6″ flowers that are made up of a double layer of lavender rose petals and a dark cone with a bit of yellow at the center. The color parade begins in July and continues into early September and the large blooms are perfect for cut flower use with their extra long stems and there great longevity in bouquets. The plant itself is a very sturdy, bushy plant with flower stems reaching above the foliage to 3 feet in height. It’s great grouped as a background plant in any garden and is drought tolerant once established in a sunny area. Even better, local butterflies, bees and birds will enjoy ‘Primadonna’ as much as you and will add to the color of your garden just by their presence!
Get ready to be blown away by ‘Prairie Splendor’, a plant that has everything you want in a summer blooming perennial. You’ll love its shorter denser form that keeps it 6-12″ lower and more compact than varieties like ‘Ruby Star’ and you’ll love its earlier bloom time starting in June, a full month earlier than ‘Ruby Star’ yet continuing to flower just as long into September. Great form and an earlier flower date have not shortchanged ‘Prairie Splendor’ when it comes to fragrance, amount of bloom and its ability to produce nectar and seed that will attract a huge variety of native insects, butterflies and birds. In short, you’ll want to use this plant often throughout any of your sunny, well-drained gardens.
Brilliant colors, superior branching and blooms early in the first summer in the landscape. Bright burgundy pink blooms are fade-proof and absolutely unique. Ideal for use in meadows or borders. Good cut flowers. Attracts butterflies. Strong, upright grower. A tough plant that handles heat with ease. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Very drought tolerant.
Loads of pollinator friendly flowers in bright, bold colors are to be found on the Meadow Mama® series. This one features butterfly loving flowers that are large and unique. The raspberry pink petals are tipped in white and surround a red cone. Blooms all summer. Not only are the Meadow Mamas perfect for any sunny garden, but they also look beautiful in any patio or porch pot.
We never get sick of Coneflowers as long as they are outstanding new introductions like this one! This recently released hybrid hails from the famed Chicago Botanical Garden and Dr. Jim Ault, so it must be amazing. ‘Pixie Meadowbrite’™ lives up to the promise as the best dwarf selection of Echinacea available with compact form holding loads of individual 2.5 to 3″ diameter, fragrant pink blooms with yellow cones that mature to deep crimson above the foliage on pencil thick stems. It’s hard to ask for more from a plant but it delivers more with a long June through September bloom period, great blue-green foliage and a plant that is virtually maintenace free. Even the birds and the butterflies will love it so plant groups of it in the sun for a long, unforgettable show!
Get ready for this amazingly floriferous selection because your garden might never be the same! Compact plants cover themselves with buds starting in late June which open to reveal the most perfect deep pink coneflowers featuring deep pink rays and a rounded cone with deeper orange hues. Even better, ‘Pink Passion’ is a blooming machine into early September filling the garden with color and scent!
Startled may be the best word to describe how you’ll feel when you first see ‘Pink Double Delight’ bloom. Its flowers are just so unusual with short, colorful, deep pink rays surrounding a massively double, deeper pink cone that creates an effect that is quite unlike any other Coneflower you’ve encountered. ‘Pink Double Delight’ forms a stiff, upright plant and has strong stems to support those heavy duty flowers that will be a constant from June through September. It will thrive in full sun and is a perfect plant for producing cutting flowers. Be sure to watch for the butterflies, hummingbirds and birds that will flock to this plant’s magnetic personality
Your mooodz will brighten when you plant the Mooodz series of Echinacea in your garden! Why? Let’s start with the immense flower power of these plants and their neat and incredibly easy care nature. ‘Awake’ is an upright grower that covers itself with big, stem ending buds that open bright magenta with orange to brown cones. Long blooming from July through until fall.
Butterflies love it, it’s tough and maintenance free, and it blooms all summer into fall. What an excellent plant! That could explain its vote as PPA Plant of the Year for 1998. Deep rose-colored flowers have broad petals that are not as droopy as straight purpurea. Blooms July through Sept.