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PURPLE CONEFLOWER SPACING PATCH
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Q: What growing conditions does Echinacea like?Ī: Echinacea will grow in average well-drained garden soil. Cultivars include ‘White Swan’ is a white cultivar ‘Crimson Star’ is a red cultivar ‘Magnus’ is pink with 7-inch flowers ‘Razzamatass’ is a double-flowered cultivar ‘Kim’s Knee High’ is a dwarf variety to 2 feet tall. purpurea: Grows to 20 inches (51cm) tall white to purple flowers around an orange-brown center.

Echinacea pallida: Grows to 18 inches (45cm) tall drooping flowers are pale purple around a purple-brown cone.

Store seeds in the cold (refrigerator) for 4 to 5 weeks before sowing this will promote better germination.

Sow seed indoors in late spring plants can be set in the garden in autumn.

Take root cuttings in early spring root cuttings in light potting soil.

Caterpillars and Japanese beetles can sometimes be a problem.Established plants can be divided every 3 to 4 years. Leave spent blooms in place to attract birds and butterflies.Deadhead spent blooms to promote new blooms.Stake tall Echinacea to avoid flopping.Echinacea does not require fertilizers.Keep the soil just moist, but Echinacea will tolerate dry soil.Sow seed 1/4 inch deep in light potting soil indoors or in an evenly prepared bed outdoors.Space Echinacea 2 to 3 feet (.6-.9m) apart.Start seed indoors in late winter or early spring for setting plants in the garden in late summer or autumn.Set established Echinacea in the garden in spring or fall.

PURPLE CONEFLOWER SPACING PATCH

Good garden companions for Echinacea include Achillea, Aster, Chrysanthemum superbum, Gypsophila paniculata, Rudbeckia, Solidago.Ī vibrant growing patch of Echinacea purpurea also known as Purple coneflower.Combine Echinacea with ornamental grasses.Naturalize Echinacea in meadows or butterfly gardens.Use Echinacea in the midground of formal or informal planting.Echinacea can grow in average to poor, well-drained soil.

PURPLE CONEFLOWER SPACING FULL

Plant purple Echinacea in full sun to part shade.

Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea and species.

Common name: Purple Coneflower, Coneflower.

Uses: Flowers attract hummingbirds grow in woodland, cottage, and meadow gardens and mixed borders flowers attract butterflies, seeds attract goldfinches.

Bloom time: Late spring to early summer.

Flower colors: Purple, red, pink, white.

Flowers: Spurred flowers, some double, range of colors and bi-colors seed heads turn bronze that remains through winter.

Foliage: Stiff stemmed clumps of bristly leaves that range from linear to lance shape to ovate.

Height and width: 18 to 30 inches (45-76cm) tall 24 inches (61cm) wide.

Hardiness: Hardy to -35☏ (-37☌) cold hardy.