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
  
  This vigorous, recently introduced cultivar produces bright red flowers up to 12cm across on upright, branching stems. These appear for a long period from midsummer and 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.