The most recent multi-colored variety of echinacea to grow easily from seed. Beautiful long-lasting blooms come in shades of butter yellow, ivory, lemon, and gold. Enjoy as a cut flower and like all echinaceas, this one attracts pollinators to your garden too. Flowers the first season when started early indoors. Grows to 24-30.

15 seeds

PLANTING

Echinacea Purpurea

Perennial, zones 4-8

Germination: 10-21 days

Germination Temperature: Optimum soil temperatures 70-75F.

Seed Planting Depth: Sow deep

Starting Indoors: Start indoors 8-10 weeks before the last frost. Provide 70-75F soil temperature. Transplant after the last frost, 18-24″ apart.

Sowing Outdoors: Mid-spring and fall

Growth Habit: Upright

Height and Width: 24-30″ by 18-24″

Spacing: 18-24″ apart

Light Needs: Full sun

Soil Needs: Average, well-drained

Approximate days to flower from seed: Blooms in the first season when started early indoors, mid to late summer thereafter.

Uses: Flower beds, cottage and wildflower gardens, cut flowers, attracts pollinators and birds

Care: Water seedlings regularly until established. Amend the soil with compost before transplanting. Cut back stems as the blooms fade, this encourages more flower production. Dont cut the plant down in fall, leave the edible seedheads up for the birds