Echinacea purpurea - Cultivation Notes
This shrubby perennial prefers full sun and well drained yet moist fertile soil. They like a regular mulching to improve soil quality yet don’t like being disturbed, so if you divide them, take care!
Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage
Strengths of Echinacea purpurea:
- Tolerates full sun and sandy, drought-prone soils
Design & Plant Use for Echinacea purpurea:
- Summer flowering plant suitable for drift planting
- Summer flowering herbaceous plant suitable for border planting
- Ideal for planting within the herb garden
- Ideal for informal cottage garden style planting
- Herbaceous plant with culinary usage
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Common Missspellings: Ecinacea, Echinacia, Eckinacea, Ekinacea, Ecinacear