Echinacea Pixie Meadowbrite

The Perfect Echinacea for Containers.

Just 18 to 20 inches high, it never flops.

Plant Patent #18,546. Cultivar name: ‘CGB Cone2′.

At last, an Echinacea compact enough to grow in containers, the front of the border, and other “up close” locations! Pixie Meadowbrite is a large-flowered true dwarf with vigorous growth, excellent branching, and a long season of bloom. It’s as useful for cutting as it is for garden (or container) growth, and should be a part of every landscape with room for one more sun-loving perennial.

Although this plant is only 18 to 20 inches high and 24 inches wide, it is so well-branched that it sets 15 or more blooms the first year! And such blooms they are — 2 1/2 to 3 inches wide, with slender, closely-spaced, horizontal pink petals surrounding a large amber cone. They arise on stalks as thick as pencils, which last a long, long time after cutting.

The foliage on Pixie Meadowbrite is more dense than other Echinaceas’ as well, with a blue-green cast that contrasts nicely with nearby green- and gold-leafed plants. This is a plant that looks handsome and healthy out of bloom as well as in — but considering that it flowers from early summer until well into fall, you won’t get much chance to appreciate it without buds and blooms.

Pixie Meadowbrite was developed by Dr. Jim Ault. It is a cross of E. tennesseensis x purpurea and E. angustifolia x tennesseensis. You will appreciate its true dwarf habit, heavy flowering, and lush foliage. Make it a part of your patio display, sunny border, and accent plantings this season! Zones 4-9.