5 Yellow Echinaceas
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Coneflowers or Echinacea are lovely summer flowers that bring a natural and elegant touch to garden beds and borders. These large daisies bloom from July to September and are easy to grow. They thrive in sunlight and well-drained, fertile, deep soil. They come in various forms: from the simple daisy with a beautifully prominent centre to the trailing petals resembling a pom-pom of tousled petals. In terms of colour, they offer a wide range, from red to white, including yellow, pink, and orange. Here is a selection of yellow coneflowers that will brighten and cheer up your garden.
Echinacea 'Harvest Moon', a sunny golden yellow
Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’ produces golden-yellow flowers with a large orange centre throughout summer, from July to September. Over time, the flowers turn to pastel orange. The medium green foliage is deciduous. This perennial, reaching a height of 60 cm and a spread of 30 cm, brightens up borders, flower beds, and garden clusters. Very hardy, it is easy to maintain and delights pollinating insects. It is also ideal for creating fresh or dried cut flower arrangements.
Echinacea ‘Harvest Moon’ fits beautifully into a cottage or natural-style garden. It can be accompanied, for example, by agastaches or phlox such as agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ and Phlox divaricata ‘Dirigo Ice’, along with grasses like Stipa barbata to add lightness and create a pastoral scene.
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Echinaceas : sowing, growing and careEchinacea paradoxa, a fragrant and wild echinacea
Echinacea paradoxa is a fragrant flower that attracts pollinating insects. Its golden yellow flowering lasts from June to August. The flowers are 10 cm in diameter and consist of fine petals that curve downwards, along with a chocolate-brown cone-shaped centre for a striking contrast. This perennial plant reaches 90 cm in height and bears stems adorned with large, narrow, medium green, deciduous leaves. It forms a bushy clump 50 cm wide. If you leave the cones to dry on the plant, birds will enjoy their seeds.
Echinacea paradoxa fits well in a wild-style garden. Plant it alongside other echinaceas, garden irises, eryngiums, blue lupins, and heleniums to create a display of contrasting yellow and blue colours.
Echinacea 'Sunny Days Lemon', sunny pom-poms
Echinacea ‘Sunny Days Lemon’ offers a profusion of flowers in the shape of bright yellow pom-poms with a green centre, from July to October. Its generous flowering brightens up borders and beds with originality. Of medium stature, it reaches a height of 75 cm and can also be grown in pots. It thrives in all well-drained soils that are not too dry in summer. With good sturdiness, its stems bear bristly pom-pom flowers surrounded by a corolla of trailing ligules. They are adorned with lanceolate, dark green foliage that has rough hairs. Slightly fragrant, they are highly attractive to butterflies, and their seeds draw in birds. They can be used in cut flower arrangements.
In a border or bed, try pairing Echinacea ‘Sunny Days Lemon’ with original Kniphofias in vibrant colours, along with blue Echinops and Coreopsis. In the background, plant a Muhlenbergia capillaris, a grass with evergreen, airy foliage.
Echinacea 'Sunny Meadow Mama', in a garden or in a pot
At 55 cm tall, the Echinacea ‘Sunny Meadow Mama’ is a compact variety that can be used both in a garden in open ground and in a container or pot on a terrace. Floriferous and well-structured, it boasts a profusion of daisy-shaped flowers in a bright yellow, enhanced by a prominent yellow-green to brown centre, from July to October. The petals elegantly droop downwards. Its flowers attract butterflies, and its leaves are dark green and lanceolate with rough hairs. You can also use this perennial plant to enhance your cut flower arrangements.
On your terrace or in your garden, try pairing yellow and pink. For example, combine Echinacea ‘Sunny Meadow Mama’ with other pink echinaceas like Echinacea purpurea, as well as Achillea millefolium ‘New Vintage Violet’ and light grasses like Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Gelbstiel’ – Chinese fountain grass.
Echinacea 'Coupe Soleil', pom-poms in cream yellow colour
Echinacea ‘Coupe Soleil’ is also a coneflower with pom-pom shaped blooms. Standing at 60 cm tall, this perennial thrives in meadows and thus easily copes with sunlight, competition from other plants, and relative drought. It flowers from July to early October without interruption and offers pure white head flowers with a green centre that start as singles and then become double blooms, transforming into cream-yellow pom-poms. The dark green foliage is abundant and deciduous. Easy to grow, this coneflower prefers well-drained, rich, and cool soil, as well as a sunny position.
The Echinacea ‘Coupe Soleil’ looks stunning in a bed with peach and apricot tones. You can plant it alongside Carex comans ‘Milk Chocolate’, Achillea millefolium ‘Terracotta’, Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’, and Bronze Fennel.
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