Echinacea Double Dipped ‘Watermelon Sugar’
Echinacea Double Dipped 'Watermelon Sugar' is a coneflower with large, fragrant, fully double, deep pink flowers.
Echinacea Double Dipped ‘Watermelon Sugar’ is a coneflower that offers fragrant, fully double, pompom-style flowers up to 4.5 inches wide in magenta-pink maturing to a medium pink with broad, overlapping horizontal ray florets. Well branched stems support the prolific flowers on plants 22 to 26 inches high and 20 to 24 inches wide. Echinacea in coastal BC should be planted in hot, dry, sunny spots with thin, average to poor soils for best overwintering. Use in the middle of the sunny border, in containers, and as long lasting cut flowers. Provides seeds for overwintering birds. Pollinator attractor. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Coneflower
Family: Asteraceae (The Aster/Daisy Family)
Zone Hardiness: 4-8
Light: Full Sun
Height: 12-24"
Width: 12-24"
Primary Bloom Colour: Magenta
Secondary Bloom Colour: Pink
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
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Fragrance: Yes
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Benefits: Bees
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Dry open woods, prairies and barrens.
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