Echinacea 'Carrot Cake'
Echinacea 'Carrot Cake' offers double flowers in various orange shades with a big orange cone and dark orange centre.
Description:
Echinacea 'Carrot Cake' is a 'must have' for the cutting edge garden due to its recent introduction. This spectacular coneflower has been bred for super compact, vigour and good branching support for intense floral display. The latest in trendy colours sees flat, fully double flowers in glowing bi-colour shades of orange to carrot-orange topped with a big dark orange centre. Expect height and width between 12 to 15 inches. Echinacea in coast BC should be planted in hot, dry, sunny spots with thin to average to poor soils for best overwintering. Elsewhere, they love to be frozen solid all winter long. Great winter interest and seeds for birds. Attracts bees and butterflies.
Common Name: Coneflower
Family: Asteraceae (The Aster/Daisy Family)
Zone Hardiness: 4-9
Light: Full Sun, Part Sun
Height: 12-24"
Width: 12-24"
Primary Bloom Colour: Pink
Secondary Bloom Colour: Brown
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: Yes
Berries:
Benefits: Bees, Butterflies
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Dry prairies, gravely hillsides and open woodland.
Award:
Geogrpahical Origin: Americas - North America
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