Sweet Sandia Coneflower

Echinacea purpurea ‘Sweet Sandia’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Perennial

Height at Maturity: 18-24″‘

Width at Maturity: 16-18″
Spacing: 18″ for mass plantings

Growth Habit / Form: Upright

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Size: 4″

Flowering Period: Mid Summer through Early Fall

Flower Color: Green, Watermelon Red

Flower Type: Single Daisy, Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Part Shade

Water Needs: Average to Low when established

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0 (Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Birds, Butterflies, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Description

With some of the prettiest flowers we’ve ever seen on a Coneflower, ‘Sweet Sandia’ is destined to be an attention getter captivating you and your guests, including the butterflies. Large and sweetly fragrant 4-inch diameter flowers have outward-facing petals that are watermelon pinkish red at the center generously tipped in bright green. The petals surround a contrasting, prominent bronze-orange cone. Perched atop tall strong stems, these dazzling coneflowers start appearing in early to mid summer continuing through early fall. A truly beautiful and impressive display in the garden and in cut flower flower arrangements. As with other versions of our North American native coneflowers, Sweet Sandia is an easy-to-grow and low maintenance hardy perennial that is drought tolerant when established and which deer tend to turn their nose up to.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing upright to 18 to 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide, the Sweet6 Sandia Coneflower is ideal for use as an accent or grouping in sunny to lightly shaded perennial and woodland borders where it will naturalize if some spent flowers/seedheads are left on the plant towards the end of the flowering season. A fine addition to butterfly, cut flower, cottage, wildflower and pink or red theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 18 inches apart for mass plantings; 30 inches apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

Sweet Sandia Coneflower is easy to grow when planted right and in the right spot. It is an adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soil. It will grow in most any moist to somewhat dry and well-drained soil of average fertility and flowers best in full sun but will also do well and bloom in part shade. Spent flowers can be removed through the bloom season. That said, the might self-sow if some spent flowers/seed heads are left on the plant towards the end of the flowering season.

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