Echinacea 'Tomato Soup'
coneflower
- Position: full sun
- Soil: most soils, except very dry or boggy
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower colour: bright tomato red
- Other features: excellent cut-flowers; toothed, dark green leaves; attractive to butterflies and bees
- Hardiness: fully hardy
A vigorous, recently introduced cultivar, which flowers over a long period from midsummer. Emerging with an orange flush, the flowerheads mature to a bright red and grow up to 12cm across on the upright, branching stems. These are very appealing to all kinds of wildlife. If you remove the spent flowers as they fade it will encourage lots more to follow, and therefore prolong the display well into autumn. - Garden care: Lift and divide congested colonies in autumn or spring. In autumn cut back all dead flower stems to the ground.
Anemanthele lessoniana
pheasant's tail grass (syn. Stipa arundinacea )
Versatile and colourful
Eryngium × zabelii 'Jos Eijking' (PBR)
sea holly
Spiny metallic-blue flowers in late summer
Helenium 'Waldtraut'
sneezeweed
Bronze-orange, daisy-like fliowers and long season
Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'
sage
Dazzling purple blooms
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