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| I'd like to add a yellow Echinacea to the other colors I have. I've looked online at these but can't decide. Cleopatra Mac and Cheese Sunrise Would love see any pictures or hear about your yellows. |
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- Posted by nevermore44 6b (nevermore44@yahoo.com) on Sat, Jun 14, 14 at 19:53
| The only yellow variety that holds it's yellow is the pure echinacea paradoxa.... But it can be harder to find if you don't seed it yourself. It also doesn't have hardiness issues like the hybrids can. It's a great plant. In regards to the hybrids though ... Mac n cheese has the most intense color but I was only able to over winter it one year.... And others had the same issue. My cleopatra came back this spring and has bloomed out nicely but it's color doesn't hold long before fading down a bit. It has great form though. Sunrise doesn't have a strong yellow to start with but holds it well. The issue with sunrise though is that it (and other big sky series echs) is that many of them have the unevenly quilled petals. So they can have poor flower form , so if you get one make sure you only buy one that has blooms on it that you can check out first. I have had my sunrise for 4-5 years and like it and a majority of the blooms are "like the picture" I will try and round up some photos of all three. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a N CT (My Page) on Sat, Jun 14, 14 at 21:20
| I purchased 'Banana Cream' from a nursery, planted it in a full sun bed. It didn't come through its first winter. I grew 'Sunrise' from traded seed via winter sowing. Seeds sprouted, plants grew and were set in full sun bed but didn't come back in Y2. There's another thread on this forum (see link) discussing the unreliability of Echinacea cultivars. The consensus seems to be they're very expensive annuals. |
Here is a link that might be useful: High $$ cost of Echinacea hybrids
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- Posted by pam_whitbyon 6 Niagara (My Page) on Sat, Jun 14, 14 at 22:00
| This was my "harvest moon" echinacea which only lasted 3 years. It was a gorgeous custard yellow. |
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| Given the preponderance of yellow daisy types, it is an absolute mystery why we, as a cohort of gardeners, have persisted in throwing away money on these ridiculously unreliable plants year on year. Here in the UK, sense has finally prevailed - few nursery people bother with any of them and they are now as rare as hens teeth (given their propensity to die, hardly surprising). Try heleniums, anthemis, heliopsis, rudbeckias, coreopsis.....anything, in fact rather than these hybrid echies........or stick with the ultra-reliable pinks and White Swan |
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