Echinacea (Coneflower)
Color Name: Watermelon Sugar
Watermelon Sugar features double pompom flowers that open magenta pink before maturing to a medium pink. Watermelon Sugar has large, fully double 4½" flowers with wide, overlapping ray petals. With a substantial landscape size of 2-2½' tall, it is perfect for the middle of the border. Strong, well-branched stems support the large, numerous heavy flowers with ease. Mounded habit of dark green foliage. Best performance comes in full sun and well-drained soils. Enjoy Watermelon Sugar as it bursts into life under the heat of midsummer. It is a pollinator magnet and during late fall to winter the seed heads will serve as food for birds.
Praised for their cheerful brightly colored flowers, coneflowers are a mainstay in today's garden. Be sure to leave some spent blooms on the plants in the fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide architectural interest in the winter.
Growing Tips: Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant. If properly cared for, they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years.
Photo courtesy of Walters Garden, Inc.
Watermelon Sugar features double pompom flowers that open magenta pink before maturing to a medium pink. Watermelon Sugar has large, fully double 4½" flowers with wide, overlapping ray petals. With a substantial landscape size of 2-2½' tall, it is perfect for the middle of the border. Strong, well-branched stems support the large, numerous heavy flowers with ease. Mounded habit of dark green foliage. Best performance comes in full sun and well-drained soils. Enjoy Watermelon Sugar as it bursts into life under the heat of midsummer. It is a pollinator magnet and during late fall to winter the seed heads will serve as food for birds.
Praised for their cheerful brightly colored flowers, coneflowers are a mainstay in today's garden. Be sure to leave some spent blooms on the plants in the fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide architectural interest in the winter.
Growing Tips: Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant. If properly cared for, they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years.
Photo courtesy of Walters Garden, Inc.
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Flower Color: Pink Shades Foliage Color: Green shades
Height: 22 to 26 Inches Spread: 20 to 24 Inches Hardy in Zone: 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Blooms: Summer to Fall
Foliage Season: All season |
Exposure
Full Sun
Partial Shade
Soil Moisture Needs
Dry
Moderate
Attributes |
 Container  Dried Flower  Extended Bloomer  Fragrant  Native Border Cut Flower or Foilage Drought Tolerant Easy to Grow Landscapes Mass Planting
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Attracts
Butterflies
Critter Resistance
Deer
