• Subject: Re: Possible i.d. of Fargesia & Echinacea 'Raspberry Petticoats'.
• From: "* <k*@comcast.net>
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 08:54:27 -0500

Could almost be a dahlia, Chris!

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: Possible i.d. of Fargesia & Echinacea 'Raspberry Petticoats'.

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Chris...thanks for the picture ability...this will be great fun and
even more interesting. Your pic of the Echinacea is fabulous...is
the one Terra Nova claims is entirely theirs just like yours? Is
there anything you can do or is it too costly to fight them? Did you
breed yours or was it a sport of some kind? Any possibility of
re-producing something similar? What a beauty and what a terrible
shame. I know you worked hard on this and had very high hopes for
it.

The one from Terra Nova is different, although they were working on
others as well.  To be honest, I stopped following the new introductions
because I found it depressing.  :)

I did notice that 'Heronswood' has a very similar-looking one out this

year, called Echinacea 'Pomegranate'.

  http://bit.ly/mQu6w3

Theirs is an obvious sport of 'Doubledecker' (as was mine), but appears to revert to the old Doubledecker form readily. Mine had the same color-changing effect -- early flowers were a shell pink with a hint of lavender and became darker with age. Attached is a photo as the petals were first opening.

Chris

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