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Not your grandma's coneflower...
Have you guys seen all the variety of coneflowers offered now?
Dreamy Echinacea
I really like...
Echinacea 'Hot Papaya' and Echinacea 'Tomato Soup'
Has anyone grown these two? After poking around in the dirt I think my Echinacea 'Harvest Moon' may actually come back this spring 
so its tempting to give another one of these beauties a shot.
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That pretty much is the way I've approached them too but I think mine are coming back for a second round so two years of blooms might be worth it. That hot papaya is a funky looking creature that looks to be straight out of a Dr. Seuss book. I like it!!
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oh my gosh...Dr. suess... no kidding
That tomato soup one is drool worthy .... wow! Are those colors true, I wonder?? These are gorgeous. I saw "Milkshake" in one of my mags, and thought it was pretty, but I don't have a pic to share.
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Natalie - Zone 5
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Stunning! It's nice to see the color is true to the enticing photos on the web. I think I'm going to have to get that one. Thanks for sharing your photo.
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I agree with Blue they do not last long enough to spend the amount of money they want for them. It is like the Hercs. not living long.
Do you think this is the point of the growers to make people keep replacing perennials?
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Of course. 
The year before last I bought the Harvest Moon for $1.50 each during one of Santa Rosas great sales.
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I forget what catalog I got this year that had those in it. I`m not too much on coneflowers, but those are lovely.
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i have purple coneflower and it does beutifly for me. are the others just not hardy? or do they have a set life span
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I just found a pretty good price on "tomato soup", so I ordered one. We'll see how it does.
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I want Green Envy!! I keep waiting for it to come down in price before I buy one.
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oh poo I just remembered I left mine back in the old garden it was meant to be a lovely dark pink,mmmm will have to drive by.
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yes?
oh ..sometimes I feel more like poo..
Donna did you have to leave when your plants were still dormant? I moved during the month of Feb. and totally forgot my rose bushes.
The coneflowers are expensive especially locally because they come in the gallon size which usually means 3 1/2 plug in a gallon of potting soil for $18.
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Grindle, mine would last two, maybe 3 years then poof, gone. The only ones that stay around are the purple.
Jennie, a friend had Green Envy and said it disappeared after 2 years.
I've heard the same thing, wich is why I'm not willing to pay up to $20 for one!
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That makes me mad too ... good idea grindle, I will be tipping over pots at the garden centers from now on.
I should mention the tomato soup plant I ordered is from someone on ebay for only $7.50. I always look for everything on there now, you can usually find it cheaper.
She won't be sending it until we get more into April. I hope it does well.
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I have to confess, that just as a matter of personal taste that the old fashioned Echinaceas never seemed to interest me much and I've never planted one, though the ones pictured make me rethink my thoughts about the group considerably. I think I'd love adding any of those new ones! I guess I found the original species one had a color that somehow didn't appeal much to me, though I've had other plants with similar coloring that I liked a lot. No explanation I guess, for that preference I guess!
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I have noticed with roses too that stores have not been giving enough tap root thus they die after you plant them it makes me sooooooo mad when they doo that
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have you guys seen the tangerine dream echinacea?? Very lovely one! Anyone grow this one?
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Quote:
oh poo I just remembered I left mine back in the old garden
Donna, did your landlord finally give in and say you could do some plantings around the property?
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yes Boo it was still asleep when we moved. Aud. it's not the landlord we rent through a realestate agent its there rules.They actually have photos of what it looked like.
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Quote:
They actually have photos of what it looked like.
That is so if anything changes they can charge for altering the property. That is how I won my case against my previous tenants. I took pics before they moved in.
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I too lost every cone flower but the originals. It seemed that they did not last more than a year or two. I put it down to the high humidity of south Ga so felt I would try in TX again.
galu
zone 8b
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Boo. Isn't that the truth. The ones I bought were actually bigger ones because I bought them in the fall, but that's what the garden centre has now. Plugs in gallon containers so they can sell them for more. 
I tip the plant out of it's pot to see if there are roots, if it's only compost I can see, I leave it.
