Butterfly Paradise Echinacea Flower Mix Seeds

Echinacea - Paradise Mix - Echinacea purpurea Perennial - These sturdy, long-lived perennial prairie flowers sport a pretty skirt of vibrant ray petals around cone shaped centers. Well-established plants are showy focal points for the summer garden and beacons for butterflies. This special mix offers the complete range of the newest forms and colors for a striking and harmonious blend of rosy-purple, apricot, yellow, orange and cream blossoms that will return to enchant you every season. Soil & Water: Keep seedlings moist and provide half-strength fertilizer every two weeks after leafing begins.

Mix Details

• Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea
• Plant type: Perennial
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Composition: Perennial - These sturdy, long-lived perennial prairie flowers sport a pretty skirt of vibrant ray petals around cone shaped centers. Well-established plants are showy focal points for the summer garden and beacons…
• Recorded feature: Container Compatible
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Soil Temperature: above 50°F
• Planting Depth: Lightly cover
• Germination: 10-15 Days
• Height At Maturity: 2-3 feet
• Sun/Shade: Full Sun
• Spacing After Thinning: 12-18"

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Butterfly Paradise Echinacea Flower Mix and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Planting & Growing: Begin indoors, 6 weeks before last frost.

Sow 1" apart in containers of seed starting mix.

Cover lightly, keep moist and provide a strong light source.

Transplant 3" apart in larger containers when able to handle.

Because this packet contains a mix, component proportions and the number of varieties visible in a small planting will vary. Emergence, growth rate, mature size, color, and harvest or bloom timing can also differ among components and with site conditions. Evaluate the planting across the full season rather than assuming the first seedlings, flowers, or harvest represent the entire mix.

Place Butterfly Paradise Echinacea Flower Mix where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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