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Enter the approximate length and width of the area you will be planting and click 'Calculate' to determine how many Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows' you will need.
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Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows'
purple coneflower
- Breeder: Jelitto Perennial Seed
- Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Height: 24-30 Inches
- Spread: 12-24 Inches
- Spacing: 12-18 Inches
- Bloom Color: Yellow
A beautiful and long-lasting coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows' is a seed introduction from Jelitto that ranges from light yellow to the deepest golden with bright orange centers. Flowering in its first season, this sturdy and reliable plant is an excellent cut flower and a great source of nectar and seed to pollinators and wildlife.
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Exposure
| • | Full Sun |
Green Infrastructure
| • | Green Roof |
Season of Interest (Flowering)
| • | Summer |
Propagation Type
| • | Seed cultivar |
Additional Information about Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows'
Ranging from Texas to New York, Echinacea purpurea can be found in moist prairies, meadows and open woods. As popular as they are in the landscape, coneflower is uncommon in the wild. They prefer full sun in fertile well-drained soil but one of the best features of Echinacea is the way it is able to tolerate drought, clay, high heat and humidity, part sun, and poor soils. Introduced by Jelitto Perennial Seeds in 2018.
The flowers of coneflower provide multiple seasons of interest from summer while it blooms to fall and winter where the great seedheads are upright and structural. Butterflies and bees love the nectar of the flowers and goldfinches can’t help but flock to the seeds during the fall.
Growing & Maintenance Tips for Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows'
Echinacea take a wide array of conditions from average dry soil to medium, well-drained soil in part shade to full sun. Plant flowers best in full sun. Low-maintenance and tolerates drought, humidity, heat, poor soil. Resistant to pest and disease but sometimes suspectible to aster yellows disease. To encourage longer bloom time, flower heads can be deadheaded but not necessary. Seedheads are a delightful source of food for birds. To propagate, divide clump in the spring every 4 years. Root cuttings are also successful. Propagation by seed does not usually come true to type.
