Red coneflower – Rudbeckia

Red coneflower – Rudbeckia
Echinacea purpurea

A beloved classic with both beauty and healing power ! Red coneflower adorns the perennial bed with its deep purple petals and stately center buds. It is not only a fantastic cut flower , but has also been used traditionally as a medicinal plant to strengthen the immune system.

The plant is very hardy , attracts bees and butterflies, and returns year after year with abundant flowering. Sow early in the year for flowering the following year.

Cultivation & Care:

• Sowing period: February–April (indoors), or directly outdoors in May

• Flowering: From the second year, July–September

• Growth habit: Upright, perennial

• Height: approx. 80–100 cm

• Location: Sunny to light partial shade

• Plant distance: approx. 30–40 cm

• Sowing depth: 0.5–1 cm

• Scientific name: Echinacea purpurea

• The seed packet is enough for: about 40 plants