Coneflower

Echinacea Sunset

• Position: full sun
• Soil: any soil type except boggy
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June to September
• Flower colour: vibrant orange
• Other features: excellent cut-flowers; toothed, dark green leaves; attractive to butterflies and bees
• Hardiness: fully hardy

  
  An exciting new variety with vibrant orange, daisy-like flowers that have a prominent brown central cone and overlapping petals. This coneflower is very floriferous and the flowers have a beautiful honey-rose scent. An excellent plant that will look great in a hot border with other orange, red and yellow flowers. Like other coneflowers it can cope will with adverse weather conditions too.
  

• Garden care: Lift and divide congested colonies in autumn or spring. In autumn cut back all dead flower stems to the ground.