Eventual height & spread
Echinacea SunSeekers Rainbow ('IFECSSRA') (PBR) (SunSeekers Series)
coneflower
- 9cm pot
- £16.99
- available to order from spring
- 3 × 9cm pots
- £38.99 £13.00 each
- available to order from spring
Delivery options
- Standard £5.99
- Position: full sun
- Soil: most soils, except very dry or boggy
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: July to September
- Hardiness: fully hardy
A compact, upright, perennial coneflower with attractive, colour-shifting yellow-pink blooms that mature to shades of pink. The overall effect is one of a multi-tonal, pinkish rainbow at any one time as vivid, new flowers emerge, and older blooms fade to paler hues. Extremely attractive to pollinators, ‘Sunseekers Rainbow’ is equally so for the cut flower enthusiast who will enjoy armfuls of long-lasting colourful blooms over the summer season.
Plant Echinacea directly into well-prepared borders or larger pots and containers, spacing them at 15-20cm (6-8in) intervals. Water well after planting and while they are in active growth.
The seed heads are attractive, and are a valuable food source for birds during the cooler months, so avoid cutting them back (to just above soil level) until late winter. Over time, it will form larger clumps with more flowering stems, so they can be lifted and divided in autumn or spring to maintain vigour and flowering performance.
Taller cultivars in exposed locations will benefit from staking.
The seed heads are attractive, and are a valuable food source for birds during the cooler months, so avoid cutting them back (to just above soil level) until late winter. Over time, it will form larger clumps with more flowering stems, so they can be lifted and divided in autumn or spring to maintain vigour and flowering performance.
Taller cultivars in exposed locations will benefit from staking.
