Echinacea SUNSEEKERS 'Bright Orange' coneflower

SunSeekers is a coneflower series of several flower colours all of which are stunning, rich, and non-fading. Plants have exceptional vigour and dense habit. In Tanz Bright Orange is a little play on words where In Tanz stands for Intense, how uncanny! It makes single flowers with ray florets that emerge deep orange red and mature to light orange with pale scarlet tones. All this topped with a large, reddish brown cone in the centre. SunSeekers coneflowers have strong and rather short stems with dark green, narrowly lanceolate leaves.

Flowering begins in early July and continues until early autumn. If you have seedlings you can expect flowers from the first year. They attract butterflies, bumble bees, and bees, too, can find a way to suck some nectar from them. Regular deadheading will promote formation of new buds and flowers.

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 continuous production of buds and flowers. Fully hardy to min -34°C (USDA zone 4).

Last update 16-06-2017