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Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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Posted by
ispahan 6a Chicago (
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Tue, Feb 21, 12 at 22:16
| Hi all,
In your opinion, what is the best echinacea with an unabashedly tacky, dark, luscious, eye-stinging magenta or fuchsia flower color? Plant height is not important as long as the color is vibrant and the plant is vigorous, hardy and reliable. (And yes, I do love magenta flowers!)
There seems to be so many second-rate echinaceas available that I am still uncertain if I even want to risk trying one at all.
Please let me know your thoughts,
Ispahan |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| Pow Wow Wild Berry is the best. It's easy to grow from seeds. |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| Another vote for Pow Wow Wild Berry, this one really impressed me last year. Annette |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| Third vote for Pow Wow Wildberry. This was a standout in our trials in Michigan, as well as the Ball trials in West Chicago. |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| goblugal have you heard if "Pow Wow WHITE" is similarly as healthy and vigorous and floriferous as "Wildberry"? |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| Sounds like a resounding approval for Pow Wow Wild Berry! Since it is somewhat later in the season and I was hoping for a few first year blooms, I might order plants of this strain instead of starting seeds. Several mail order operations have it available this season as plants. Since this is a seed strain, is there a lot of variation among individual plants regarding flower color? I was hoping for fairly uniform shades of magenta with no pale pink or lavender blossoms in the mix. |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| These all had a strong color here. They are all compact and well-branched. I think it's one of the best seed plants I've grown. They really show off the second year! |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| The PowWow white is just as well matched as the Wildberry. Wildberry color stability is very good, but as with all echinacea, you will see variation depending on the age of the bloom |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| Fatal Attraction is the most eye-stinging of them all. Unfortunaly it was not reliable for me. But some people wrote they could keep it alive, so... |
RE: Best magenta/fuchsia echinacea?
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| This is the color of Ech. 'pow wow wild berry' grown from seed 2011.
 'Pow wow wild berry' ech. |
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