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Summer Sun
Hot Lava
Hula Dancer
Raspberry Tart
Flame Thrower
Sunset
Pink Poodle
Sunrise
Green Envy
Pow Wow
Tangerine Dream
Cotton Candy
Pallida
Harvest Moon
Hot Papaya
Merigue
Pica Bella
All that Jazz
Tomato Soup
Milkshake
Sunset
Paradoxa
Misc Cross
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- Posted by coolplantsguy z6 Ontario (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 11:22
| Nice! |
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- Posted by aftermidnight Z8 V. Island B.C. (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 13:43
| Your Echinacea border exudes pure charm. I have about a dozen varieties but they're scattered throughout the garden and not blooming yet, After seeing your border I just might round mine up and plant them together. Annette |
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- Posted by nevermore44 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 14:22
| Thanks. They do look good in clusters. Though the first shot is a majority of crosses that i did 2 years back... 95% are standard color (minor petal size/shape differences. I did get a decent orange that fades to yellow.. and the red i showed. I am planning on tagging them, so that in the fall i can separate the good from the standards. |
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- Posted by coolplantsguy z6 Ontario (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 14:36
| Do you have a favourite? ;) |
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| Wow! What you have created is similar to my goals with echs. Thanks for sharing..very nice! |
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- Posted by nevermore44 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 16:29
| I am liking the oranges/yellows these days.. flamethrower is doing really well. Usually it's just the one that is in best bloom that day! |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 16:54
| Beautiful! I love them all. I'm planting Russian Sage with my Echinaceas now. It looks great with Flame Thrower and Hot Summer. |
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- Posted by roses4cindy WA zone 5 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 17:48
| lovely...I have just recently discovered these new gems. I have After Midnight, Hot Papaya, Mango, Milkshake and Fatal Attraction...any others you might suggest I should have? I am a major rose fanatic but these new echinaceas are winning a place in my heart. I hope they are good performers! Your border is just stunning. |
Here is a link that might be useful: In a Garden
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| Very nice! That Pink Poodle is gorgeous! Mine have buds but no open blooms yet; anxiously awaiting... |
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- Posted by nevermore44 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 14:25
| I do like the pink poodle a lot, luckly it has always done the full puff blooms for me... but i see a majority of them at the stores are mixes of double decker and mutant flowers... not good looking at all. |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 7, 11 at 14:56
| My Pink Poodle is the right bloom form this year! I guess that proves they can improve! |
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| WOW ~ Thanks for sharing! I love Sunset & Green Envy! Do you dead head them or do they get cleaned up by Winter birds? Our State Bird, Gold Finches clean up my 6 x 6 patch & 2 other smallish sites in Winter. |
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- Posted by northerner_on Z5A ONCanada (My Page) on Fri, Jul 8, 11 at 4:07
| What a lovely collection - I love them all. I am a sucker for anything that looks like a daisy and last year someone sent me seeds from about ten different varieties of Echs. I now have lots of little seedlings, but I wonder if they will come true. My idea was to do like you - group them all together in one area because I don't have enough to have mass plantings of each variety, which would have been my preference. Now I know it will look OK, if I can get them through the winter. I lost some of mine last winter becuse we had so much rain that area of the garden got a little flooded and they don't seem to like wet feet. Thanks for sharing the lovely photos. |
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- Posted by nevermore44 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 8, 11 at 7:10
| i try to deadhead.. but sometimes its hard to keep up. The goldfinches to usually swarm in the fall... pulling petals from the flowers going after the seeds. All the blooms in the first shot (besides the purchases hybrids that are on the edges ..flame thrower, hot papaya, tangerine dream) are 2 year old plants from seeds i collected off of my hybrid plants. As you can see many came out purple colored with some variable forms. But i did get a red, orange/yellow, yellow. I am going to separate them so they don't get out competed. They aren't as large plants as the others. |
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