New Coneflowers For 2006

Echinacea Sunrise Echinacea purpurea x parado Sunrise
Sunrise is a coneflower that is very special. It has very large 4 1/2 to 5 inch deep yellow blooms that are wonderfully fragrant. The folks at Wayside Gardens say, "As the blooms mature, they turn a lighter, more buttery shade of yellow, so by the middle of summer, your planting will have every shade of yellow from "school bus" to pale lemon blooming at once! " For a great description and a place to buy, go to Wayside Gardens Website. This plant will be hard to find at the retail level until next year.

New Coneflowers For 2005

Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea ‘Fancy Frills’
New for 2005 from Terra Nova Nurseries
This lovely coneflower appears almost like a pink sunflower, with multiple rows of rich shaggy petals! Stems are quite strong and the BIG flowers are perfect for cutting. A new, long-blooming, and fragrant addition to your border.
For more information go to Terra Nova’s Web Site


Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) ‘Green Eyes’
New for 2005 from Terra Nova Nurseries
Our richest colored coneflower to date! Shocking magenta flowers of uncommon substance have beautiful indented green centers that mature to a cone with rich orange. This strong plant is a super addition to the border for its long-lasting blooms that also make a great cut or dried flower! Fragrant.
For more information go to Terra Nova’s Web Site


Coneflower ( Echinacea purpurea) ‘Hope’
New for 2005 from Terra Nova Nurseries
Calm, fragrant, soft pink flowers of great size and substance adorn this long blooming perennial. It is dedicated to the breast cancer survivors and the memories of those who have succumbed to breast cancer. Terra Nova will make a donation for each plant sold, to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, to help further the search for a cure for Breast Cancer. Sold with beautiful over-sized picture labels that advertises this as a ‘Plant for the Cure’. Labels are mandatory to ensure success of the program. We anticipate response to this program to be overwhelming given the extreme generosity of our customers and our customers’ customers, please allow 1-2 years for your order to be filled.
For more information go to Terra Nova’s Web Site

New for 2004 - Orange Meadowbrite™

Monrovia Nursery is announcing a wonderful new orange coneflower called "Orange Meadowbrite" to be found in most independent garden centes in the spring of 2004.

New For 2004 - Purple Coneflower Vintage Wine

Purple Coneflower Vintage Wine New For 2004
(Echinacea purpurea Vintage Wine)
From Park Seed Company

A Sweet-Scented New Color! The closest to true red the Coneflower family has seen yet!
2004 is a very good Vintage . . . especially if you're a Coneflower! Vintage Wine is a color breakthrough for this sun-loving native American perennial, with big, ultra-fragrant blossoms of deep claret red that keep coming all summer! If you add only one perennial to the sunny garden this year, make it Vintage Wine!

These blooms are simply magnificent, with upturned petals instead of the usual windblown-looking, downward-facing kind. They cluster tightly around a large central cone, which adds another season of beauty to the plant after the flowers pass in autumn. (More on that in a moment!) Four inches wide and just radiating hot red color, these flowers are a butterfly magnet, a dream come true for cutflower lovers, and a garden standout so bright you may just have to reach for your sunglasses!

Best of all, they arise all summer long, and with very little help from you! Pamper this plant the first year, giving it plenty of water and good soil to get its root system established in your garden, and then watch it take off! Echinacea is right at home in American gardens, thriving despite heat, humidity, cold, infertile soil, and even -- once its roots are deep -- drought. Pests leave it alone, and "good bugs" of all types visit it.

After the flowers finally pass in autumn, let the bare cones remain on the plants. The seeds inside them will dry, and songbirds will come to feast! So you get bright colors of a different sort in your autumn garden from this fine perennial!
Vintage Wine reaches 24 inches tall and about 18 inches wide. Space the plants 18 inches apart in full sunshine and well-drained garden soil, and get ready for the show of a lifetime! Zones 3-9. 3-inch pot. For information about sources go to Park Seed Company Web Site

Popular Coneflower Varieties

‘Alba’ has creamy white petals around greenish centers.
‘Bright Star’ is rose-pink with maroon centers, grows 2 to 2½ feet tall.
‘Magnus,’ a main selection of the Perennial Plant Association for 1998, has brilliant carmine petals that do not droop, and orange centers.
‘Robert Bloom’ is cerise-mauve-crimson, with orange or purplish-brown centers; it grows to 3 feet tall.
‘White Lustre’ has bright white, curved petals; grows to 2½ feet; is drought resistant.
‘White Swan’ is bright white with copper-orange centers; it grows to 2 feet tall with a compact habit and honey-like fragrance.