Double Scoop™ Watermelon Deluxe Coneflower

Grab an extra helping of beauty by planting the Double Scoop™ Watermelon Deluxe Echinacea in your garden. It starts out as a handsome shorter coneflower with brilliant purple-red flowers, but as it ages – the flowers last right into the fall – the flower-center expands into a beautiful ball of compact petals. A fast-growing, prolific blooming perennial that is easy for everyone to grow, the birds in fall love it too, for the seeds they enjoy, and this plant will attract them, and butterflies in summer, into your garden for the party. Plant it among earlier-blooming perennials to continue your color display with its summer and fall blooms. Grow it in a natural meadow garden; along the edge of a path; in a rock garden; or in planter boxes, mixed with other perennials, small shrubs or annual flowers. Few plants are as easy or reliable as this one, so it’s great for new gardeners and children too. Plus, it’s a selection of a native plant, so can be grown in a wild garden too.

• Striking flowers of bright red on a compact, 2-foot plant
• Blooms from mid-summer into fall – a great choice to follow spring bloomers
• The central cone becomes a round ball, like a scoop of watermelon icecream
• Long-lasting flowers become a source of seeds for birds in winter
• Easy to grow in any garden – a tough and reliable selection of a native plant

Plant the Double Scoop™ Watermelon Deluxe Echinacea in full sun for the best blooming, although it will take a touch of shade. Plant in any well-drained soil, including more sandy, poorer soils. Water new plants regularly – once established it has good drought tolerance, but flowers best with a little attention. Compact shape needs no staking, just let it grow. Don’t remove dead flowers as these become the seeds for the birds. Deer and rabbits don’t eat it and it has no significant pests or diseases. Cut back to a few inches tall before spring. It tends to sprout later than many other perennials, so don’t worry, it will come back strong and vigorous soon.