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Starlight Echinacea Coneflower - Ornamental Perennial

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Starlight Echinacea - We’ve chosen an especially striking cultivar of this long-lasting 2 to 3 foot tall perennial. Starlight’s 3 inch flowers have a pretty skirt of vibrant carmine-rose ray petals held almost horizontally around burnt orange centers. These vigorous blooming plants are sensational focal points of the midsummer garden and butterflies love to visit the flowers regularly. Echinacea has gained wide acceptance as an effective immune system tonic to ease the symptoms of colds and flu.

Seed Count: Approx. 60-65 / Weight: 200 mg

Characteristics: 

  • Perennial and hardy to zone 4, most southern range of the purple coneflowers
  • One of the very best for attracting butterflies and birds
  • Plants grow to 2-3 feet tall
  • Mix and colorful flowers

Instructions - Simply sow the seeds 2-3 months before the last frost or you can mimic the stratification process but sowing the seeds in soil or sand, water and cover to prevent the media from drying out.  It requires 1-2 months in the cold. Once sprouts start to grow you can then transplant outside if the harsh frosts are gone or in larger pots. 

Alternatively

  • Start Indoors - 8-10 weeks before the last frost or sow very early
  • Sow 1/2" deep
  • Germination 10-20 days
  • Thin 18-24" apart

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Starlight Echinacea Coneflower - Ornamental Perennial Reviews