Echinacea 'MARMALADE' coneflower

Marmalade is another coneflower hybrid with fascinating colours. It was bred by Arie Blom in the Netherlands and patented under PP22,602 in 2012. Marmalade coneflower produces rich orange or coppery orange fully double flowers. They open quite – from late June and if regularly deadheaded and fertilized they will continue showing up until late summer or early autumn. Leaves are deep green, broadly lanceolate and may suffer from diseases if grown in wet or compacted soil.

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 20-06-2015; 05-01-2017