{"id":11274,"date":"2019-06-28T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:41:44","slug":"three-high-performance-coneflower-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2019\/06\/28\/three-high-performance-coneflower-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Three High Performance Coneflower Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘PowWow Wild Berry’<\/p><\/div>\n

Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea<\/em>) are very popular perennials (USDA hardiness zones 4-9). Their colorful flowers will attract a multitude of beneficial pollinators to your garden. Some cultivar series come in a myriad of colors.<\/p>\n

For the best and biggest flowers, coneflowers perform at their best in full sun and in well-drained soils. After planting echinaceas grow off quickly, are moderately drought tolerant, and stand up to heavy summer rain, high humidity, and moderate winds.<\/p>\n

Three of the\u00a0top performing series are:<\/p>\n

Cheyenne Spirit\u00ae (2013 AAS Trial Winner) requires minimal care \u2015 no deadheading, staking or excessive watering. Cheyenne Spirit comes in myriad of colors – white, yellow, orange, red and purple, sometimes all on one plant!\u00a0Plants are somewhat bushy and upright, measuring 30-36 inches tall.<\/p>\n

PowWow\u00ae Wild Berry\u2122 was selected an All-America Selection (AAS) Award in 2010. Plants form a mid-sized mound of coarse dark-green leaves and large daisy flowers with magenta-pink petals surrounding an orange-brown central cone.\u00a0\u2018<\/em>Pow Wow White\u2019 is equally beautiful. Plants are well-branched and bloom all season. It requires no deadheading and flowers are nonstop. Its compact size, 18-24 inches high and 12-16 inches wide, is an added plus.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sombrero\u00ae series also grows compact, is free branching, early blooming, and come in a wide range of colors including purple, red, coral, pink, orange, yellow and white.\u00a0Blooms measure 2.5 to 3 inches across. Sombrero Salsa Red and Sombrero Adobe Orange is the earliest to start flowering (around mid-June). Hot Coral grows 24 inches tall. Salsa Red is the shortest, only 16 inches tall.\u00a0 ‘Sangrita Red’ (above) grows 16-18 inches tall with scarlet-red petals. Adobe Orange is taller at about 20 inches with larger flowers. Their compact size makes them idea for containers on decks and patios.<\/p>\n

Fill your flower vases this summer with long lasting coneflowers. Native to North America, coneflowers are great pollinator plants in gardens when planted in a perennial bed or as part of a landscape border or and in large containers and window boxes. Their floral seed heads feed birds all fall and winter. Coneflowers are also deer resistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) are very popular perennials (USDA hardiness zones 4-9). Their colorful flowers will attract a multitude of beneficial pollinators to your garden. Some cultivar series come in a myriad of colors. For the best and biggest flowers, coneflowers perform at their best in full sun and in well-drained soils. After planting echinaceas grow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1218,747,1319,1351,749,768,1037,674,806,665,1324,774,853,551,1476,627,625,843,1060,812,1059,729,777,630,706,646,1056,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11925,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}