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Perennial and spring-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. Perennials and spring-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your hardiness zone. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included. All perennials and spring-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent.
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View more Planting Guides, or download our complete Planting Guide for tips on caring for your plants when you receive your order, as well as planting instructions for Perennials, Spring-Planted Bulbs, Fall-Planted Bulbs, Cacti & Succulents, Xeric Plants and more.Īs soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. More in-depth guidance for growing and maintaining Echinacea plants: Purple Coneflowers: Native Grace and Beauty in the Garden and Echinacea: Rocky Top Hybrids, Echinacea - Perennial of the Year. Spring Care: Cut back the dry stalks to the crowns of the plant in early spring. You can cut back seed heads in the fall, where you don't wish the plant to reseed. Plant it in a wide, shallow depression and mulch amply or place right up against the north side of a low, wide rock, tilted to shed water on the Echinacea's side.įall Care: You can leave the dried seed heads for winter, as they provide food for birds. 'Rocky Top Hybrid' echinacea, while xeric, appreciates extra moisture provided by some easily accomplished water harvesting techniques. Species and cultivars raised from seed will often reseed themselves to continue their presence in our gardens.
Healthy individual coneflowers will grow in the garden for 3 to 5 years. and are most commonly found growing in prairie habitats.Įchinacea thrive in our gardens when provided with well drained soils, plenty of sunshine and moderate to dry moisture conditions depending on the species and cultivars. They are native to the eastern half of the U.S. This genus is invaluable for the mid- to late-summer garden, bringing color into our plantings when many spring bloomers have gone green for the season. pallida (pale purple coneflower) - purple, narrow, very downward flexing ray flowersĮ.Tips For Growing Echinacea (Purple Coneflower) paradoxa (yellow coneflower) - yellow flowersĮ. Most of these new cultivars are the result of seedling selection of purple coneflower or crossing between E. There have been multiple new introductions of purple coneflower in many different colors. Plants can get overcrowded and benefit from division every 4 to 6 years. Plants freely and easily re-seed throughout the garden and this can be reduced if you remove flowers after they fade and before they set seed. Goldfinches and other birds like the seed found in the dried black center part of the flower and spent flowers will stand through winter. Deadheading will promote more repeat blooms. Plants have a big flush of bloom in first part of summer with consistent bloom (but fewer) until first frost.
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Great flower for full sun, well drained soils. Insects & Disease Issues: Leaf spots, Japanese beetle and aster yellows (occasionally), Culture and Uses: Leaves: 4-8”, dark green, coarse, serrated, short stiff hairs, alternate, simpleįlowers: June-August, purple-pink, purple, white, 3-4” diameter, brown central cone with bronze tint, slightly drooping Great pollinator plant for butterlies and other insects seed heads attract goldfinches and other birds especially during winter.Easy to grow, native perennial flower for Iowa.
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