Echinacea 'SENSATION CORAL'® coneflower

Marco van Noort is a Dutch lover and breeder of perennials, and he excels in breeding coneflowers. Sensation Coral® belongs to his coneflower series Sensation and boasts strongly scented flowers with attractively changing colours. They open pastel orange and soon turn soft coral red and mature to pale purple pink. It makes bushy, well-branched clumps with 40-60 cm tall, strong stems from July until August. 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 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. Fertilizing will help especially young plants establish and will contribute to continuous production of flowers. Fully hardy to min -34 °C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 31-07-2021