Echinacea ‘Big Sky Sundown’ (Hybrid Coneflower) in northern border
Echinacea ‘Big Sky Sundown’ (Hybrid Coneflower)
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Echinacea ‘Big Sky Sundown’ (Hybrid Coneflower) in northern border
Echinacea ‘Big Sky Sundown’ (Hybrid Coneflower)
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We would love to grow this echinacea in our garden but sadly they seem very short lived for us. Your pic shows how amazing the colours can be in the new varieties. Malc
I agree with you Malc. The hybrids I’ve tried are not as reliable and I was actually surprised to see this doing so well this week. Mine have been short-lived also.
The modern hybrids come in such delicious colours but alas so many of them are short lived. I wonder why this is. I love the colour of this one.
Some of the echinacea hybrids have gone over the top I think, in color and frilliness, but I do like this color. It’s the first year that it’s really bloomed well–I’d given up on it.
Love the color but I have given up on Echinacea because of aster yellows. I grow Ratibida, Rudbeckia, and Silphium to get my daisy flowers of the prairie fix.
Of the ones you mentioned I grow Rudbeckia. I’ll have to look up the other two. I like growing Echinacea a lot, even though most are the pinkish flowered ones and not my preferred color. I do have one that is white also.
Love the colour! I am growing a cone flower in a pot to deter the snails this year. So far so good – nice buds showing!
Me too, I do like that color! Hope you can foil the snails and enjoy your coneflower Cathy. I see an occasional snail but moles are still my current garden nemesis.
All the echinacea are described as short lived in the books I have, a great pity because they are lovely; I’ve just sown the white one, actually they need pricking out!
Thanks for that reminder Christina that all echinacea are short lived. I’d read that but forgotten it. I have one white hybrid and this sunset, but the rest are native Echinacea purpurea. I usually leave the seed heads for the birds, and mine have been multiplying little by little. I’ve tried to move a few around to different areas of the garden. Hope your seedlings do well.
I hope so too, but I’m not sure where I’m going to plant them!
I haven’t discovered my native coneflowers to be short lived at all but the newer hybrids sure are. I have this coneflower in my garden, too. Beautiful pics! I hope mine blooms soon, too!
Thanks and best of luck with your hybrid coneflower. I couldn’t resist the color. The natives are great to have to fill in the garden this time of year.
The echinacea are still a few weeks from blooming and I do hope this one will return as it is my one of my favs.