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New echinacea varieties
paranoiaEchinacea 'Paranoia'
A cross between E. paradoxa and E. purpurea, it is yellow, dwarf (10 inches) and sterile.

 

Fragrant Angel

Echinacea 'Fragrant Angel'
Introduced by Dan Heims of Terra Nova Nursery in Oregon, 'Fragrant Angel' could possibly displace 'White Swan' as the standard white echinacea. Blooms reach four or five inches across and come continuously from July through September. A mild honey-phlox perfume.

Ruby Giant Echinacea 'Ruby Giant'
Huge 7-inch recurved blooms are held aloft on stocky plants. Refined and improved in color and flower size with an attractive flattened cone shape and poised habit.
Razzmatazz

Echinacea 'Razzmatazz'
Fragrant purple-pink flowers with a large, fully double, pom-pom-like head of petals in place of the cone, framed in a ring of large daisy-like petals.

Prairie Frost

Echinacea 'Prairie Frost'
Forms a low clump of showy green leaves edged in cream. Upright stems hold a long display of rose-pink daisies with a deeper orange to brown cone in the center. Flowering starts in midsummer and continues for weeks.

Doppelganger

Echinacea 'Doppelganger'
Second-year plants produce large magenta-pink daisies with a second smaller flower produced on top of each dark brown central cone.

Fatal Attraction

Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction'
'Fatal Attraction' is unique because of the black stems that hold the intense pink flowers atop sturdy 26-inch tall stems. Flowering begins in late June.

Merlot

Echinacea 'Merlot'
Large rose pink flowers with wonderful wine red stems and petioles. Three feet high.

Raspberry Tart

Echinacea purpurea 'Raspberry Tart'
Fragrant, dark magenta flowers bloom all summer long. Flowers are smaller than most coneflowers, but extremely numerous. Only 24 inches tall in bloom.

Green Envy

Echinacea 'Green Envy'
Unusual lime-green flower heads with rose pink rays toward the centers, which are large, cone-shaped and dark to lime green. Established clumps up to 3 feet tall and wide.

Eggnog

Echinacea 'Hope'
'Hope' produces fragrant, soft-pink flowers of great size and substance atop strong stems. Great for cutting. Introduced by Terra Nova Nurseries.

Happy New Year

Echinacea 'Green Eyes'
'Green Eyes' looks like 'Ruby Giant' with deeper magenta flower color and a green disc center that gives a green-eyed look when young. A strong plant with long-lasting blooms that are fragrant.

Twilight

Echinacea 'Twilight'
Wonderfully-fragrant rose petals surround a red cone. Twenty-four inches tall and 18-24 inches wide. Blooms from June to August

Mango Meadowbrite

Echinacea 'Mango Meadowbrite'
The first orange-petaled echinacea ever, 'Mango Meadowbrite' has neon-sheened, golden-mango petals surrounding a dark cone with shimmering orange-yellow cone-tips. It also has a mild citrus perfume. A Chicago Botanic Garden introduction. (Chicago Botanic Garden photo by Robin Carlson)

Orange Meadowbrite

Echinacea 'Orange Meadowbrite'
Large single blooms of rich sunset orange appear from midsummer well into the autumn. Flowers are held on branching stems above a low mound of narrow dark green leaves. The fragrant blooms are attractive to butterflies. Flowers are excellent for cutting. (Chicago Botanic Garden photo by Robin Carlson)

 
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