Pink Fascinator Coneflower

A fascinating specimen for your summer garden! You may not have known what they're called, but you've seen them before. Those fashionable pins that ladies wear in their hair in London for the Queen's birthday or the ladies in Kentucky wear for the Derby when a hat is just too much? Those are called Fascinators!

So when the Pink Fascinator Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Pink Fascinator') bursts on the scene, it made just as much a fashion statement as one of those elegant hairpins! The petals are a deep hot raspberry with a high mounding center cone to match. Birds, butterflies, Hummingbirds, and bees can't stay away from these beauties!

The flowers keep coming all summer and, if deadheaded, well into fall. They stay upright, even in the rain, and keep to themselves in a tidy clump. Once the blooms fade in the autumn, the songbirds move in, plucking seeds from the textural seedheads that can remain interesting all winter throughout USDA planting zones 4 to 9!

Planting and Application:

Style these Fascinators as you like! Dress them up with high-end Roses, or let their true prairie roots shine by including them with Ornamental grasses and other sun-loving modern natives! They are a must-have for the Butterfly Garden, Cut Flower Border, and Cottage Gardens! Create an eye-catching garden border with other sun-loving perennials and other Coneflowers as color contrast.

These are stand-outs for your garden, whether your style is a rustic wildflower garden, meadow or prairie, or a contemporary urban courtyard or surrounded by neatly sheared evergreens! They look best in groups of three or more, in rows winding throughout the sunny landscape!

Of course, Pink Fascinator looks great in containers and porch planters, enlivening your front porch, and adding a conversation piece to your outdoor garden seating. A perfect choice for an incredible "Thrillers" in mixed planters, you'll be amazed at the versatility of this small perennial. Try planting up several matching containers along your patio or front walk, or jazz things up with a mixed collection of glazed planters placed in a triangle near your front entrance.

Tolerating harsh locations in the sun, handling poor soil, and periodic drought, making them fantastic in the hell-strip along the road or sidewalk, in Rock Gardens, or in a Xeric garden with Prairie Grasses and other prairie wildflowers. Include them in your Fire-Wise landscaping plan! Business owners, this selection will turn heads right to your front door! Fill a wide, open area with a mass planting of these easy-peasy herbaceous perennials.

• Bright Raspberry Pink Petals & Huge Ruby Red Raised Cones
• Prolific Flowering Summer til Autumn
• Attracts Hummingbirds, Bees & Butterflies
• Gorgeous Cut Flowers!
• Vigorous & Well-Branched
• Bright Specimens, Accents, Edging, Massing & Vibrant Potted Plants

#ProPlantTips for Care:

These herbaceous perennial plants thrive in the hottest and sunniest sites! Best in full sun, Echinacea are hardy, tolerant, and drought-tolerant once established. Plant with Nature Hills Root Booster and access to yearly fertility to keep the blooms popping! While not particular on soil type, Echinacea does great in most soil types as long as they are well-drained! For better results, enrich the soil with compost and organic material.

Provide moderate, yet consistent moisture for new plants, then afterward, Coneflower only needs supplemental moisture during prolonged heat and drought. All plants can be kept stress-free with a 3-4-inch layer of arborist mulch.

Divide clumps when they become overcrowded, which can be about every 4 years. Coneflower usually reblooms without deadheading, but if spent flowers are removed, this will encourage continued beautiful blooms and improve general appearance. If you leave some spent blooms on the plants in the fall their seeds provide winter food for birds. You can enjoy the dried seed heads as well because they will provide architectural interest in the winter.

• Full Sun Perennial
• Moderate Fertility & Moisture Access
• Any Well-Drained Soil
• Drought Tolerant & Deer Resistant
• Easy-to-Grow, Heat & Humidity Tolerant

Fascinate your neighbors and butterflies with these showy blooms! Order the Pink Fascinator Coneflower today at NatureHills.com and be enthralled!