PRAIRIE STARS™ Tomato Soup Coneflower

Echinacea x 'Tomato Soup'

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PRAIRIE STARS™ Tomato Soup Coneflower highlights at a glance!

  • Brand
    Nature Hills' Choice
  • Botanical Name
    Echinacea x 'Tomato Soup'
  • Mature Height
    30 - 32 inches
  • Mature Spread
    24 - 30 inches
  • Sun Exposure
    Full Sun
  • Moisture
    Moderate to Low
  • Soil
    Well Drained
  • Growth Rate
    Medium
  • Pruning Time
    Late Autumn
  • Bloom Period
    Summer, Fall

Big, bold blooms, the Prairie Stars™ Tomato Soup Coneflower (Echinacea x 'Tomato Soup') is the brightest red Echinacea yet! Quite the attention-grabber, these blooms are 3.5 inches across and have a strong spicy fragrance!

Because Tomato Soup is well-branch and vigorous, it produces more showy blooms than others and offers many new possibilities for garden combinations! The early spring green foliage is the perfect stage to set off the soon-to-follow flowers!

Tomato Soup is a long-lasting Coneflower that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds! Plus the seedheads attract songbirds for a fall feast. These brilliant flowers have spikey domed red-orange centers that provide lots of vital nectar and pollen resources for a wide range of beneficial pollinators!

As the flowers mature, they fade to vivid pink, giving the entire plant a two-tone effect! These hardy perennial flowers bloom throughout USDA planting zones 4 to 9 and can grow almost 3 feet in height and width. Very easy to grow, low-maintenance, and widely pest-resistant, this hybrid Coneflower retained its hardy native roots!

Planting and Application:

Plant in your hot, sunny garden beds where these vibrant blooms add spicy color all summer. Enjoy Tomato Soup and its bright red blooms that will scream summer, especially when combined with bright purples and all shades of yellow!

This hybrid Echinacea will present a season full of red daisy-like flowers and is praised for its prolonged blooming after other perennials have faded. The coarse green foliage is not just a fantastic backdrop for the blooms, it also highlights all your other Perennial garden residents.

Enliven Cottage and Rock gardens with a fiery injection of bold color, and spice up walkways and paths to entice you along your way all summer long! Of course, the vivid color and long bloom time make Tomato Soup fantastic when planted in groups or mass plantings, showing off that brilliant red color non-stop all summer!

Plant among other hot-colored sun-loving perennial planting combinations such as Black-Eyed Susans, Butterfly Weed Plant, Blanket Flower, Gaillardia, and Red Hot Poker Plants! Or display this unique Coneflower all on its own as a fantastic specimen and focal point plant!

Plant in your favorite barrel or planter as a dramatic focal point. The size of this perennial makes it great for use as an impressive thriller in your larger containers and on hot sunny patios! You'll have free-flowering blooms from mid-summer through frost. That's months of color!

Plus the novelty blooms are great in cut flower arrangements! The strong stems provide intensely saturated color as a focal point and are tall enough to use as thrillers in your bouquets!

Coneflowers are used as accent plants or in mixed borders, open woodlands, and modern prairie interpretations. Fragrant, these blooms keep coming all summer on tall plants with excellent branching. This plant is deer-resistant so don't worry about planting this in out-of-the-way locations!

  • Huge Daisy-Like Intensely Red Flower Heads
  • Bold Cut Flowers & Spicy Fragrance!
  • Vigorous & Well-Branched
  • Pollinators & Hummingbirds! & Seedheads Attract Songbirds
  • Vivid Flowers Summer Til Frost!
  • 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, Tomato Soup 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. Tomato Soup 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

Large, red, and spicy! For spicy fragrance and color, you'll never go wrong with the hardy, vigorous prairie native PRAIRIE STARS™ Tomato Soup Coneflower! Head over to NatureHills.com to order today!

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