Green Jewel Echinacea

The Green Jewel Coneflower is a vigorous perennial plant that dies down each winter and bounces back the next spring. It grows a little more than 2 feet tall, with many self-supporting flower stems, each carrying several blooms. The 5-inch flowers are sweetly fragrant, with jade-green petals standing out horizontally, and a flattened central cone of dark green. Easy to grow, it will brighten your flower beds and add a sophisticated touch, calming and blending the other colors of your plants. It is perfect everywhere from formal beds to cottage gardens and rough ground. The flowers are visited by bees and butterflies, and if you leave the cones standing for winter the seeds will attract goldfinches and other seed-eating birds.

• Unique coneflower with jade-green petals and green cone
• Flowers stand horizontal, without the petals drooping
• Great addition to your beds, for color balance and contrast
• Wonderful for vases and flower arranging
• Attracts bees and butterflies in summer, goldfinches in winter

Grow the Green Jewel Coneflower in full sun, or in partial shade in the hottest zones. It is resistant to both cold and heat, growing everywhere, and it thrives in all well-drained soils, be they rich garden beds or undeveloped rough ground and grassy areas. It just takes one annual cutdown, in fall or early spring, to keep it perfect, and it needs no staking. Pests, diseases and deer are almost never problems.