{"id":7832,"date":"2015-07-27T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2015-07-17T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T21:38:34","slug":"long-blooming-tennessee-coneflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/07\/27\/long-blooming-tennessee-coneflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Blooming Tennessee Coneflower"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tennessee Coneflowers at Butterfly Arboretum in Jonesborough, TN<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dependable\u00a0Tennessee coneflowers (Echinacea tennesseensis<\/i>) bloom almost all summer (USDA hardiness zones 4-8). That\u2019s three months long. Plants are covered with pale pink, flat ray flowers; blooms measure 2 to 3 inch across with greenish-brown centers or cones. It is a great addition to hot dry sites, including shallow rocky soils, conditions\u00a0that would challenge other coneflower species. Group several together in a perennial border, meadow, or wildflower garden. New compact forms grow well in containers.<\/p>\n

This Echinacea species grows 18 to 30 inches tall. It thrives in full sun and in moist, well-drained soils.\u00a0After\u00a0the first\u00a0year, plants\u00a0tolerate dry soil conditions. Plants tend to be floppy in partial shade and\u00a0need staking.\u00a0From mid-June into September\u00a0TN coneflower\u00a0blooms non-stop. The petals extend out or up and seem to follow the sun. The pale pink petals do not reflex backwards like popular purple coneflowers (E. purpurea<\/i>).<\/p>\n

TN coneflowers have no serious insect or disease problems. Japanese beetles, powdery mildew and leaf spot are occasional problems. They do not benefit from high soil fertility, which tends to weaken stems. Flowers attract many species of\u00a0butterflies and birds (particularly finches). Deer generally do not bother coneflowers. Every 4 to 5 years divide clumps when the garden bed becomes overcrowded. Plants usually re-bloom without deadheading; periodic removal of spent flowers\u00a0does improves overall bed appearance.<\/p>\n

Hybrid cultivars:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Rocky Top\u2019<\/b> is a compact grower with pastel pink on 2 to 3 feet tall and 1 foot wide plants.<\/p>\n

Pixie Meadowbrite\u2122<\/b>\u00a0is a dwarf form (<\/em>18 inches tall and 20 to 24 inches wide)<\/em> with medium pink flowers.<\/p>\n

At one time Tennessee coneflower was listed as endangered; it is\u00a0easy to find in commerce today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0                 Dependable\u00a0Tennessee coneflowers (Echinacea tennesseensis) bloom almost all summer (USDA hardiness zones 4-8). That\u2019s three months long. Plants are covered with pale pink, flat ray flowers; blooms measure 2 to 3 inch across with greenish-brown centers or cones. It is a great addition to hot dry sites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1218,747,749,768,710,521,674,806,665,627,625,843,812,1059,777,630,823,706,646,1227,113,1056,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832"}],"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=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}