La Réfriche Nursery
Purple Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) - Zone 3
Purple Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) - Zone 3
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$12.00 CAD
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Echinacea purpurea - A perennial plant renowned for its ornamental and medicinal qualities, echinacea is an essential part of any gardener's ecosystem. Its elegant flowers with bright pink petals are good friends with bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
Habitat
Habitat
Purple coneflower prefers full sun exposure. It is a plant that prefers cool soils such as loam or clay soils. It also tolerates well-drained soils.
Size and posture
Size and posture
When planted in the garden, each plant can be spaced 30 cm apart to form a flower bed in the first year.
The average height of mature plants is 130 cm.
Pollination
Pollination
Nectar-rich plant loved by pollinating insects.
Our echinacea seedlings were open-pollinated. Therefore, insects did all the work.
It is possible to deadhead echinacea flowers to prolong their blooming period.
Source
Source
Our purple coneflower plants were grown from seeds of Quebec origin.
