Proven Winners® Double Scoop™ Lemon Cream Coneflower

Brash yellows are easy to come by in the garden, soft yellows, not so much. Especially buttery yellows that won't fade to white, turn brown, or are too ephemeral to last through the heat of summer! Enter the Proven Winners® Double Scoop™ Lemon Cream Coneflower PP27,858 (Echinacea x 'Balsclemc')!

This lovely new color is like your Grandma's banana pudding - pretty enough to eat! Unlike most Coneflowers that have spikey raised domes, these unique blooms have fluffy pom-pom centers with backward drooping toothy petals that look like they are ready to take off into the sky!

The flowers are double pom-poms making them very fluffy and very touchable - which is good because they look great in vases. These are hardy and steady growers. The foliage stays dark green all summer long. Birds, Hummingbirds, and butterflies love them!

The color is sweet, but the plant is strong - a vigorous grower, strong branching, and a prolific bloom. The whole DOUBLE SCOOP™ Coneflower brand is a newer introduction of Echinacea and they are bred for plenty of flowering, hardiness, and beauty!

Able to weather the intense heat and humidity of a southern summer as well as the biting cold winters of more northern climes USDA planting zones 4 to 9, this pretty perennial will astound you year after year! Leave some spent flower blooms on at the end of the fall so that the songbirds can feast on the seed heads over the winter as interest.

Planting and Application:

Make a bold statement in the landscape with these creamy yellow flowers! Mix with other mellow hues and pastels to create a luscious Cut Flower Garden, mixed Perennial borders, and throughout the sunny Cottage Garden. Pot up in some fancy planters or decorative mixed containers to add their fancy frills to your outdoor seating areas and balconies, porches, or patios!

These full flowers are a must-have for the Pollinator border as they feed a wide variety of beneficial insects! Plant in wildlife and wildflower gardens, and add a modern flourish to your prairie gardens and meadows!

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, established Coneflowers only need 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. Lemon Cream 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

Eye-catching soft yellow pom-poms! The gorgeous mellow-yellow Proven Winners® Double Scoop™ Lemon Cream Coneflower will leave you seeing double! Order these fantastic specimen accents today at Nature Hills Nursery!