 Echinacea purpurea 'Raspberry Truffle' PP22612
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Photo Courtesy of Walters Gardens, Inc.
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| | Series Name: CONE-FECTIONS™ Series
Common Name: Coneflower |
Brilliant plant hybridizer Arie Blom has done it again! Adding to his colorful CONE-FECTIONS™ Series, the new ‘Raspberry Truffle’ offers a completely different shade of coneflower we haven’t seen until now. Imagine a deliciously fragrant, strawberry peach smoothie with a dollop of milk chocolate on top and you have ‘Raspberry Truffle’.
The flowers emerge single coral pink with a chocolate cone and then develop their pom-pom center as they mature. Fully opened 4inch flowers have strawberry peach, horizontally held ray petals and a broad, darker pink pom-pom. All are produced on showy dark stems that really help to set off the unique flower color.
But wait, there’s more! Awesome flower color is just one of this new and improved perennial’s best features.
This plant is an incredibly vigorous grower with a spectacular habit. In our trials, we planted 72ct plugs in the ground in spring and by mid-August that same year, the plants were larger than a 1-gal sized specimen. We do have ideal growing conditions for Echinacea in our trials and consequently our plants grew larger than those in some other trials. However, we’ve all been incredibly impressed with this new plant’s performance.
If you’re looking for a beautiful new Echinacea with a bushy, upright habit, this is the one!
Praised for their cheerful brightly colored flowers, coneflowers are a mainstay in today's garden. Be sure to leave some spent blooms on the plants in the fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide architectural interest in the winter.
Intro Year: 2011
Breeder: Arie Blom
Introducer: Plants Nouveau
Origin: Native Cultivar
Characteristics:
Height:
28-32 Inches
Spread:
20-24 Inches
Flower Color:
Pink shades
Foliage Color:
Green shades
Sun or Shade?:
Full sun (> 6 hrs. direct sun)
Part shade (4-6 hrs. direct sun)
Wet or dry?:
Low water needs
Average water needs
Want to see wings?:
Attracts butterflies
Attracts songbirds
Need critter resistant plants?:
Deer resistant
How fast should it grow?:
Medium
When should it bloom?:
Midsummer
Late summer
How's your soil?:
Poor Soil
Average Soil
Fertile Soil
Sweet or Sour Soil?:
Acidic Soil (pH < 7.0)
Neutral Soil (pH = 7.0)
Alkaline Soil (pH > 7.0)
What's your garden style?:
Container/Patio
Prairie
Cottage
Eclectic
Echinacea purpurea is a wildflower native to the eastern United States and is well-adapted to survive the hot, windy conditions typical of that region. If properly cared for, they will form attractive colonies and will live for many years.
Coneflowers like it sunny and hot. Though they will tolerate light shade, fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened. Light, loamy soils are best but coneflowers will grow in any well-drained soil. Once established, they are quite drought tolerant.
The word "echinacea" comes from the Greek word "echinos" meaning "hedgehog", referring to the flower's spiky central cone.