Echinacea 'Pas1308374' LAKOTA™ SOFT ORANGE coneflower

LAKOTA™ SOFT ORANGE is a hybrid coneflower selected from a strain of seedlings called LAKOTA™ FIRE offering glowing shades of dark orange, soft red, and purple red flowers. It produces large, 8-10 cm across, single, bright orange, daisy-like, and sweetly fragrant flowers with rather flat, green and orange discs. Stems are densely leaved, about 40 cm tall and plants are compact and bushy. Longevity of individual flowers is almost 3 weeks.

LAKOTA™ FIRE coneflower series was introduced by Walters Gardens Inc. in 2018 in the USA and brought to Europe in 2020 where it is sold under 4 names respecting individual colour tones: Orange, Red, Red Ombre a Soft Orange. It is also listed under Proven Winners® selections for their durability and reliability.

Deadhead spent flowers regularly and feed the plants every two weeks during summer. Leaves are deep green, lanceolate, and may suffer from diseases if grown in wet or compacted soil. 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 yet before it 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 25-09-2022