Plants grow vigorously in the garden reaching 40 tall.
Echinacea green envy plant.
Blooms nonstop from summer fall.
Green jewel coneflower boasts a fresh blossom color with fragrance.
It is growing in part shade.
Well branched its numerous flowering stems are sturdy and held upright.
This is the 2nd season echinacea green envy bloomed for me in my zone 7b garden.
Across 12 cm adorned with a skirt of bright jade green ray florets held slightly above the horizontal surrounding a central deep green cone.
If you are going to be harvesting the roots.
If removing them leave the foliage at the base of the plant to overwinter.
Actually the plain old echinacea purpurea is one of the best as are echinacea angustifolia and pallida.
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.
May be slow to emerge in the spring.
Well branched and budded with over 20 blooms per plant large fragrant blooms are 4 5 across.
Plants grow to a tidy 2 feet tall and are hardy in zones 3 to 8.
Green envy echinacea is a true collector s plant with rare greenish white flowers.
Across 12 cm the blooms elongate from their rounded shape and their cone takes on a rich purple hue.
Easy to grow prolific bloomer.
Their diligent work paid off with green twister.
As the flowers mature the petals elongate and the deep green cone gradually changes to dark purple.
They have everything you may want or need for your garden yard etc.
Kim s knee high double decker razzmatazz green envy are all purpureas.
Cheyenne spirit harvest moon sunrise are hybrids of purpurea crossed with other echinaceas like paradoxa not known for their medicinal qualities.
Light green petals radiate from a green cone.
Ultra hardy coneflower overwinter well and is destined to become a garden favorite.
A very unusual coneflower variety echinacea purpurea green envy is noted for its flowers which open mint green and gradually turn pale purple near the center while retaining their lime green color at their petal tips.
Deadheading will prevent seeding but birds are crazy about the seeds and the seedheads are attractive in the winter especially in the snow.
These blooms are the perfect cooling element between bright hued perennials and glow when paired with dark foliage like black lace elderberry.
I love the unique purple flowers with green edges around the petals.
The flowers emerge with lovely rounded petals with pink tones near the green cone.
Coneflowers like it sunny and hot.
Though they will tolerate light shade fewer flowers will be produced and the plants will be weakened.
A stellar improvement over green envy.
