Catalog Description
A first for Echinacea - blood orange flowers and sweet orange tea fragrance. Blooms over a long season in late summer through fall. Deadhead often to encourage branching and force new blooms because seed cones do not elongate like the species. A widely adaptable native that's disease resistant and stands up to late summer heat. Essential to beds, borders, wild gardens and containers. Herbaceous perennial. Full sun, part shade. Fast growth 2 to 3 feet tall and as wide. |
Design Ideas
The quintessential component of the American meadow and prairie garden. Blend with grasses or nestle into stream bed banks at boulders for a wild garden composition. A valuable late season bloomer for the traditional perennial border. Superior pick-me-up for tired foundation planting. Equally well suited to casual country gardens along picket fences or in mixed borders. New orange coloring extends it into tropical garden themes with hot colored exotics. |
Companion Plants
Combine with other outstanding North American native prairie perennials such as Purple Coneflower, (Echinacea purpurea), Jacob Cline Bee Balm (Monarda didyma 'Jacob Cline'), Kobold Blazing Star, (Liatris spicata 'Kobold') and Hartweg Penstemon, (Penstemon gentainoides).
Plant as meadow with native Blue Lime Grass, (Elymus glaucus) or hardy Dwarf Fountain Grass, (Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hamelin’).
A beautiful perennial to combine with four season native shrubs such as Dwarf Cranberry Bush Viburnum, (Viburnum trilobum ‘Compactum’) and Forest Pansy Redbud, (Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’).
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Average Landscape Size
Fast growth 2 to 3 feet tall and as wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
A first for Echinacea - blood orange flowers and sweet orange tea fragrance. A widely adaptable native that's disease resistant and stands up to late summer heat. Essential to beds, borders, wild gardens and containers. Herbaceous perennial. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a neat appearance, remove old foliage before new leaves emerge. Divide clumps every 2 to 3 years in early spring. |
Growth Conditions
| Heat Zones |
 High:
| 9 (>120 to 150 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 4 (-30 to -20 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
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| Flower Color |
| Orange |
| Flowering Time/Season |
 | Late summer through fall. |
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Propagation
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Attributes
Attracts Butterflies
Drought Tolerant
Fall Flowering
Flowers for Cutting
Fragrant
Native Plant
Showy Flowers
Summer Flowering |
Foliage
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Plant Lore
Echinacea root was discovered by Native Americans within its range for healing properties. In recent years science has confirmed that the root contains chemicals that stimulate the immune system. Coneflowers are part of the American prairie plant communities and are a well documented bird habitat plant. |
Plant History
Echinacea is a wildflower hallmark of the American prairie that's made its mark on gardens. 'Art's Pride" was bred by Dr. Jim Ault, Director of Ornamental Plant Research at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. This is the first variety to offer a new flower color to the traditionally pink-petalled species. |
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