Echinacea ‘After Midnight’ Coneflower

Just a Foot High, but What Color!

The combination of magenta blooms, black stems, and reddish-black cones is irresistible.

Plant Patent Applied For. cv: ‘Emily Saul.’

Just a foot high and wide, this new Big Sky™ Echinacea is packed with color that will draw the eye from across the garden. The strongly fragrant, brilliant magenta blooms are large, arising on long, stiff black stems that stand out in the vase as well as the garden. Even the central cone is showier than usual, sporting reddish-black hues.

Echinacea After Midnight™ reaches no more than 12 inches tall and nearly as wide. It is ideal for containers, as well as in the Echinacea garden in front of its taller cousins. Butterflies and bees adore its huge central brown cone in summer, while songbirds feast upon its dried seeds in fall and early winter. Deer tend to leave this plant alone, making it a fine choice for open gardens and meadows as well as the border.

Plant After Midnight™ in any moist, well-drained garden soil exposed to full sun, and keep it very well-watered and fed the first season or two. Once established, it is wonderfully tolerant of heat, humidity, poor soil, cold, and even drought.

Hardiness: Zones 4-8.