Re: Orange Echinaceas

The seed and nursery catalogs have started to arrive and I note that
last year's Echinacea Orange Meadowbrite (Art's Pride) has been
supplanted by a variety called 'Sunset'.  Did any of you have
experience with either  variety  this past year?  I had one plant of
Meadowbrite, but lost it to a cool and very wet spring, so my
experience may not be typical.
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I lost Orange Meadowbrite twice before getting one to take. It did nicely for a first year plant. Though the stems and foliage were a bit spindly, it had a surprising number of flowers and I really like to orange tones. To me it was more sunset orange - an orange with pink highlights - than a true orange which makes me wonder whether the 'sunset' you are seeing is an orange meadowbrite that someone decided to rename and market.

Monrovia also markets a Meadowbrite variant called Mango which is a bit more on the yellow-orange side.
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