Echinacea Pretty Parasols

Perennials
Written By Elizabeth Broadbent
 

Common Names: coneflower 'JS Engeltje'

Family: Asteraceae

Features:

  • Multi-headed, parasol-like blooms with a prominent central orange cone surrounded by drooping white-pink ray petals

Sunlight: Full sun

Ultimate Height: 0.5 - 1 meters

Ultimate Spread: 0.5 - 1 meters

Flowering: Summer - Autumn

 

Care:

Deadhead the flowers as they fade to encourage more to form, but in autumn leave the seed heads for the birds. Cut them back the following spring, when the new foliage emerges. Mulch echinaceas with well-rotted manure or compost in autumn.

Elizabeth Broadbent
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