Echinacea 'Pearl495' ORANGE PEARL

PEARL is another coneflower series bred by a perennial specialist Henricus Maria Joseph Holtmaat from the Netherlands. All varieties boast large and flat flowers of vibrant colours on rather short stems making compact plants.

ORANGE PEARL coneflower is a free flowering variety producing compact plants with about 40 cm tall stems bearing rich tangerine orange flowers. They are single, flat, sweetly fragrant, and mature to burnt orange with red tones. The cone-shaped discs are deep orange red and hide plenty of nectar especially for bees, bumble bees, and butterflies. Flowering begins in July and finishes in early autumn if you feed the plant every two weeks during summer. Regular deadheading will promote formation of new buds and flowers, too. Leaves are broadly lanceolate, dark green, deeply veined, very large, and recall rudbeckia foliage.

The plant is usually trouble-free and resistant, just be careful is slugs are present in your garden. Since coneflowers emerge quite late, often when slugs are already in their lethal strength, they could gobble up newly emerging foliage totally and thus destroy the plant before it even comes out.

Coneflower will tolerate almost any soil type but boggy. It loves full sun. It is suitable for mixed borders with perennials, or can be used as a flowering feature among low shrubs and conifers, and looks lovely when planted in a mass in a container on patios and balconies. Fully hardy to min -34°C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 17-08-2022