Echinacea Autumn Beauty Seed

A warm toned coneflower mix producing daisy like blooms in golden yellow copper orange and soft rose shades bringing long lasting colour and strong pollinator appeal to borders prairie plantings and wildlife gardens.

 

Coneflower Autumn Beauty forms sturdy upright plants with broad petals surrounding a raised central cone. The flowers open in rich autumnal colours creating a glowing display from midsummer into early autumn. Plants are long lived drought tolerant once established and highly attractive to bees butterflies and seed eating birds. This mix is ideal for naturalistic borders prairie style plantings and gardeners seeking a warm colour palette with reliable perennial performance.

 

It thrives in full sun and free draining soil and copes well with poorer ground. Once established it requires little care and returns year after year with increasing strength. The seed heads can be left over winter for wildlife value and structural interest.

 

Seed Qty Approx 1 gram

 

Sowing and planting

Sow indoors from February to April or outdoors from May

Germination takes approximately fourteen to twenty one days at fifteen to twenty degrees Celsius

Grow in free draining soil in full sun

Height eighty to one hundred centimetres

Spread forty to fifty centimetres

Flowers from July to September

 

Sowing instructions

Sow seeds on the surface of moist compost and press in lightly

Grow on in bright cool conditions then harden off before planting outdoors

Space plants forty to fifty centimetres apart for full clump formation

 

Growing and maintenance

Water during dry spells in the first season

Remove spent blooms to extend flowering or leave seed heads for birds

Cut back in late winter to encourage fresh spring growth

Ideal for prairie borders wildlife gardens and perennial beds

 

Uses and benefits

Warm autumn toned blooms

Strong pollinator attraction

Drought tolerant once established

Long lived perennial

Perfect for prairie style and wildlife friendly gardens

 

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