Echinacea purpurea Sun Magic Vintage Yellow - Purple Coneflower

Echinacea Sun Magic® 'Vintage Yellow' is a variety of Echinacea with distinctly optimistic flowers. The colour of the sun, its large daisies are flat and horizontal, giving the plant a dynamic and cheerful appearance. Its sturdy stems bear numerous flowers throughout the summer. This perennial brightens up flower beds, sunny borders, or flower pots from the first year onwards.

Echinacea purpurea 'Vintage Yellow' 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 through Oklahoma and Ohio. 'Vintage Yellow' has a sturdy, bushy, upright, and dense habit, reaching 60cm (24in) in height and 45cm (18in) in width. The opposite, lanceolate, green leaves are bristly with rough hairs. Flowering occurs from July to September, and it is slightly fragrant and highly visited by butterflies. The branched stems are topped with a solitary head, measuring 10 to 12cm (4 to 5in) in diameter, with a disc surrounded by a collar of horizontal or slightly trailing ligules in golden yellow. The fruit is an achene that releases seeds that birds are fond of. This plant firmly and deeply roots itself in the soil with its highly developed root system.

Echinacea 'Vintage Yellow' is a hardy plant that adapts to difficult conditions, occasionally tolerating intense heat, humidity, and drought. Its flowering brings dynamism and cheerfulness to flower beds. Play with similar-coloured blooms but different shapes, such as those of daylilies, and Monardas. Its warm colours look stunning next to the golden or pink spikes of ornamental grasses like Stipa tenuifolia, Schizachyrium scoparium, or Muhlenbergia capillaris. Its vibrant combination with another foliage plant, Alchemilla mollis, is stunning. Lastly, it brightens up fresh or dried flower bouquets.

Note: Attention, our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible, in pots, containers, or directly in flower beds.