Echinacea 'NOW CHEESIER' coneflower
size/type
mid-sized perennial,mid-sized perennial
usual height
0,6-0,8m
usual width
0,6-1m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
showy
colour of flowers
blooming time
July-September
location
full sun
USDA zone (lowest)
4 (down to -34°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Description of the plant:
Following a huge success of Mac’n’Cheese coneflower, American nursery Terra Nova® is bringing a successor called Now Cheesier. Also bred by Harini Korlipra it offers rich golden yellow flowers with orange and green centres on taller, well branched stems which keep on producing flower buds until September. The flowers are attractive for butterflies, bumble bees, and also bees can find a way to suck some nectar from them. Flowering begins in about mid July, and when the top flower is finished just deadhead it and the stem will continue producing buds and flowers that will keep popping up until late summer or early autumn. Leaves are deep green, lanceolate, and may suffer from diseases if grown in wet or compacted soil. Patented under PP23059 in 2011.The plant is usually trouble-free and resistant, just be careful if 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 14-07-2016
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