Re: Orange Echinaceas

Don Martinson wrote:
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.

Don,

I bought some small plants of Echinacea Orange Meadowbrite at Parks last summer then bought a yellow variety I think is called "Sunset". I saw a large clump of Orange Meadowbrite thriving at the University of Georgia gardens in Athens GA last summer.

I think Orange Meadowbrite needs drier conditions than other echinacea. It has E. paradoxa as one of its parents. I have tried to grow E. paradoxa from seed which is difficult ( low germination -- less than 10%, etc). Never had much luck in getting it established. The range for E. paradoxa is very limited for it is found only in the Ozark plateau region of Missouri.

Al Krismer
Cincinnati
Digging out of 15 inches of snow

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