Echinacea purpurea Sun Magic Vintage Pink - Purple Coneflower

Echinacea Sun Magic® 'Vintage Pink' is a variety from the Sun Magic series, which offers compact, hardy cultivars with strong stems on well-branched plants. Their flowering is expressed in vibrant, long-lasting colours, with heads with fairly rigid ligules for horizontal, vibrant and cheerful flowers. 'Vintage Pink' offers large daisies in a fairly deep pink, with a prominent green-orange disk. Very floriferous, the plant produces 25 to 30 flowers per plant during the summer and into early autumn. It brightens up borders, sunny edges or flowering pots from the first year onwards.

Echinacea purpurea 'Vintage Pink' belongs to the Asteraceae family. It is a horticultural creation resulting from, among others, Echinacea purpurea, native to the western United States, from Georgia to Michigan, passing through Oklahoma and Ohio. 'Vintage Pink' has a bushy, upright and dense habit, reaching 60cm (24in) in height and 45cm (18in) in width. The lanceolate, green leaves are opposite and covered in rough hairs. The flowering is renewed from July to September, it is slightly fragrant and very popular with butterflies. The branched stems are topped with a solitary head, 10 to 12cm (4 to 5in) in diameter, with a disk surrounded by a collar of horizontal or slightly trailing ligules in pink. The fruit is an achene that releases seeds which are eagerly eaten by birds. This plant firmly and deeply anchors itself in the soil, thanks to its highly developed root system.

Echinacea 'Vintage Pink' is a resilient plant that adapts to difficult conditions, occasionally tolerating intense heat, humidity and drought. Its remarkably colourful flowering brings dynamism and good mood to borders. Pair it with flowers of similar colours but different shapes, such as daylilies, and bee balms. Its pink flowering is beautifully accompanied by the golden or pink spikes of ornamental grasses such as Stipa tenuifolia, Schizachyrium scoparium, or Muhlenbergia capillaris. Its vibrant combination with another foliage plant, Common Lady's Mantle, is superb. Finally, it brightens up fresh or dried flower bouquets.

Note: Please be aware that our plug plants are professional products intended for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible, in pots, containers or directly in borders.