Echinacea purpurea 'Raspberry Truffle' PPAF (30)ct Ellepots
Common Name: Coneflower; CONE-FECTIONS Series
Zones (4)5 to 9.
Full sun to part shade.
Plants reach 28 to 32 inches tall and 20 to 24 inches wide;
Clumping habit. Growth rate: Moderate.
Flowers emerge single coral pink with a chocolate cone and then develop their pom-pom center as they mature. Fully opened 4-inch flowers have strawberry peach, horizontally held ray petals and a broad, darker pink pom-pom on showy dark stems.
'Raspberry Truffle' is a coneflower of a different color, and it's incredibly vigorous.
Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant.
Excellent as a border plant, in mass or containers, as cut flower or foliage, dried flower or seed heads; fragrant flowers attract butterflies. If deadheaded, the bloom cycle will be extended. However, some spent blooms should be left on the plants in fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide interest in the winter. Deer resistant. |
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