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Freeport Gardening Guide: Echinacea Flowers

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Echinacea Flowers

Echinacea Seeds, Alan's Pride:

Description: This unusual and sprightly, sour-apple green echinacea blooms in the first year! This standout bloom received the prestigious Fleuroselect Novelty Award for its unique color and first-year blooming habit. Plants reach just over 2 feet tall, adding cheer to perennial beds, annual flower gardens, borders, and even containers.This variety is well suited to cutting for arrangements and it is highly attractive to pollinators! Bred by our friend Alan Sparks in the Netherlands.

A close-up of Alan's Pride Echinacea flowers arranged in vase.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Green Twister:

Description: An ornamental medicinal beloved by butterflies, birds, and bees! Green Twister is a wild take on our favorite immune-boosting herb. Electrifying green and magenta petals are like a flashing neon sign for pollinators and indeed, this variety is a hot spot for beneficial garden visitors. Drought tolerant and easy to grow, this perennial will provide medicinal benefits and pollinator attraction each year, with good looks to boot!

Green Twister Echinacea in pot.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Mellow Yellows:

Description: A pollinator-attracting perennial in a lovely range of yellow colors. A glorious palette that ranges from brilliant yellow to rich gold. Compact plants reach just 24 inches tall, perfect for containers or for the front border. Pollinators adore the nectar- rich flowers, and we love how no fuss this pretty plant is: drought tolerant and not picky about soil. Excellent in so many applications, from the meadow to the herb garden.

Mellow Yellow Trio of blooms with variegated leaves.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Ozark Yellow Coneflower:

Description: Like the pale purple coneflower, but these are a bright golden-yellow color. Brilliant blooms do well in fairly dry, rocky soil such as that found on many of the Ozark hills here in Missouri and Arkansas; this is the region where this unique coneflower is native. Used by Native Americans as a traditional medicine, it is being researched today for its herbal uses. It can be hard to find even here in southern Missouri, but is rather easy to grow.

Echinacea - Paradoxa or Ozark Yellow Coneflower growing in garden.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Pallida:

Description: This is an excellent choice for those who like the company of hummingbirds and butterflies in their garden. Native to the eastern half of the U.S. and up to Canada, this is a super adaptable and easy to grow flower that the Native Americans held in high esteem as a powerful medicinal. They require very little care; as long as they aren’t excessively moist, they will thrive just about anywhere.

Echinacea Pallida blooms on white background.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Paradiso Mix:

Description: A real spectacle in the herb garden, Echinacea Paradiso Mix is a blend of the wildest combination of gem stones. This candy jar of color adds gorgeous accent to herb gardens, perennial beds, meadows, and containers. A truly remarkable medicinal ornamental, plants stand 2-3 feet tall and can be harvested and made into an herbal tea that studies have shown may help boost the immune system.  A must-have for cold and flu season.

Paradiso Mix Echinacea

 

Echinacea Seeds, Paradiso Super-Duper:

Description: A dazzling double-petaled echinacea in the most charming rosy tones. This enchanting traditional medicinal plant is a perennial that will bloom in its first year. Easy to grow, reliable and quite hardy; the 36-inch tall plants boast stunning double-petaled heads. An enchanting choice for the herb garden, beds, borders, and wildflower meadows; also excellent as a cut flower.

A close-up macro of Paradiso Super-Duper Echinacea blooms.

 

Echinacea Seeds, Purpurea:

Description: A beautiful purple wildflower and well-known medicinal herb with numerous uses. Excellent. Showy flowers bloom on tall, sturdy stalks.

Echinacea Purpurea with bee pollinator