Echinacea ‘French Tips’
Echinacea 'French Tips' is a coneflower with single, bicolour flowers of pink with creamy-white tips and dark cones.
Echinacea ‘Fench Tips’ is a coneflower with intriguing single, broad petaled, bicolour flowers with pink petals and contrasting creamy-white tips around a reddish to burnt orange central cone. Tons of flowering stems rise 12-24 inches above lance-shaped green foliage all summer long until frost. Use en masse for the border, in a mixed bed, and as a cut flower. Echinacea in coastal BC should be planted in hot, dry, sunny spots with thin, average to poor soils for best overwintering.
Common Name: Coneflower
Family: Asteraceae (The Aster Family)
Zone Hardiness: 4-9
Light: Full Sun
Height: 12-24"
Width: 12-24"
Primary Bloom Colour: Pink
Secondary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Foliage Colour: Green
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: Yes
Berries:
Benefits: Butterflies
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Dry open woods, prairies and barrens.
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