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Sat, May 21, 11 at 10:47
These are beautiful! I cant capture the color exactly but the blooms start out golden orange and turn red over a few days.
This is the strongest orange/red Echinacea. It's the only one I've ever seen that got stronger the second year. Others were smaller the second year.
Tip: Improve drainage when planting. I added soil conditioner, sand and composted cow manure. I also added some bone meal. This plant is about 3 feet tall! I think it's a keeper! |
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RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| This one has been a strong performer for me at the nursery. Much more vigorous than Tiki Torch or Tomato Soup and seems to bloom earlier. I would also suggest Hot Papaya as another strong grower. |
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| These look gorgeous! I have Hot Papaya, but it's slow to get going with all the rain & up & down temps around here this spring. I wondered if bone meal might help this plant or not, so now I know to give it a shot. I just planted it last year & it did nicely. I was hoping for a better show this year. |
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Echinacea "Hot Summer" is the best hybrid Echinacea I've grown. The blooms are turning bright red now. I think second place is "Flame Thrower." "Hot Papaya" didn't return this year for me. I don't think I like the double Echinaceas that much anyways. I prefer the "daisy" look. |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| Clint, my Hot Papaya returned and is looking good, despite constant rain. Karen |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| Strange. I think my "Hot Papaya" had been treated with some kind of hormone before I bought it. It was covered with blooms last year. It flopped over from the weight. This plant just looks so much better to me. This is what an Echinacea should look like. I just prefer the bloom form. The color changes and multiple hues on one plant are an added bonus. |
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| I'm not one for liking all the fancy foo foo hybrids in echinacea, but I do like that one. I may have to find one of those some day. Karen |
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This is my favorite coneflower. I bought mine as a 1g plant last summer and this year it came back strong...it's actually bigger than my seed grown coneflowers.
Your pictures are beautiful. |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| Hey echinaceamaniac I took your advise and bought one 
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RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| BEAUTIFUL! Will these come true from seed? May add them to me seed trade list. :P |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| Please let us know if these do well in zone 5. They did good here in zone 7. Some of these plants do better in colder zones and some like it warm. I'm hoping this one likes both extremes. These don't come true from seeds. You can get some interesting plants from the seeds though. |
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| I bought one about 2 weeks ago but Kansas has had an early July with high wind and high heat so it has been subjected to some extreme summer weather and hasn't really taken off yet. I bought it and Solar Flare at the same time as 1gal. plants but put them into 3gal. pots. It has buds that aren't yet open. I can't wait! Love yours, they're beautiful. |
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| I'm from Denmark. I have bought 3 Hot Summers. One starts as orange but the orange fase lasts for 1 or 2 days at the most. On the second some flowers open red. The third (to my horror) is showing distorted flowers(as in Big Sky series).But overall it seems to be the most robust of the orange/red single flowered echinaceas. |
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| You people are terrible. Just when I tell myself no more, you go and post these pictures....... Tomato soup was a dud for me, distorted flowers even after moving it around. Have space in a new bed and I feel obligated to try this one (just so I can answer echinaceamaniac's zone 5 question...honest) |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| One of my plants started like this: 
And ended like this: 
The other plants started like this: 
and then they improved a little: 
They have survived a terrible winter here in a sheltered place, and came bigger. Shall I hope the flowers will improve? Or will it be the same story as with the Big Sky rubbish? |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| Wiselaw, I was going to mail order this one but saw it at a local nursery and the flowers look nothing like echinaceamaniac;s pic but look more like yours. I will not be getting it. I think that this probably shows a lot of variability in performance like tomato soup |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| well.. i ended up getting one of these today. I found one that had good basal growth with multiple growth points. Plus half off for the end of the season sale. Some of the other new varieties seem to take a year or more to really show... or fail. So hopefully yours will get better next year! |
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| E.maniac, yours is awesome! |
RE: Echinacea 'Hot Summer'
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| yep, I am DONE with echinaceas apart from pinks and white - the hybrid ones have been rubbish (and I have tried a lot). Over here, many nurseries have pretty much stopped stocking them apart from the odd Sunset or Sunrise...oh yeah, the abomination that is Art's Pride. If I want those oranges, there are heleniums. |
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