Echinacea Green Envy Plant

Coneflowers like it sunny and hot.

Echinacea green envy plant. Actually the plain old echinacea purpurea is one of the best as are echinacea angustifolia and pallida. Well branched its numerous flowering stems are sturdy and held upright. If you are going to be harvesting the roots. Well branched and budded with over 20 blooms per plant large fragrant blooms are 4 5 across.

Green jewel coneflower boasts a fresh blossom color with fragrance. Ultra hardy coneflower overwinter well and is destined to become a garden favorite. This is the 2nd season echinacea green envy bloomed for me in my zone 7b garden. May be slow to emerge in the spring.

Green envy echinacea is a true collector s plant with rare greenish white flowers. Cheyenne spirit harvest moon sunrise are hybrids of purpurea crossed with other echinaceas like paradoxa not known for their medicinal qualities. As the flowers mature the petals elongate and the deep green cone gradually changes to dark purple. A stellar improvement over green envy.

Though they will tolerate light shade fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. The flowers emerge with lovely rounded petals with pink tones near the green cone. These blooms are the perfect cooling element between bright hued perennials and glow when paired with dark foliage like black lace elderberry. A very unusual coneflower variety echinacea purpurea green envy is noted for its flowers which open mint green and gradually turn pale purple near the center while retaining their lime green color at their petal tips.

Across 12 cm adorned with a skirt of bright jade green ray florets held slightly above the horizontal surrounding a central deep green cone. Echinacea purpurea is a wildflower native to the eastern united states and is well adapted to survive the hot windy conditions typical of that region if properly cared for they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years. Plants grow vigorously in the garden reaching 40 tall. Deadheading will prevent seeding but birds are crazy about the seeds and the seedheads are attractive in the winter especially in the snow.

Easy to grow prolific bloomer. Light green petals radiate from a green cone. I love the unique purple flowers with green edges around the petals. On jan 24 2013 schmeeges from sintaluta canada wrote.

It is growing in part shade. Blooms nonstop from summer fall. Kim s knee high double decker razzmatazz green envy are all purpureas. Noted for its unusual color echinacea purpurea green jewel is a very unique coneflower with huge fragrant flowers up to 5 in.

Bought this plant 6 years ago and bloomed beautifully the year i bought it. Their diligent work paid off with green twister. Plants grow to a tidy 2 feet tall and are hardy in zones 3 to 8.