Echinacea 'Gemini Pink' ~ Big Sky™ Double Pink Coneflower

Echinacea 'Gemini Pink' ~ Big Sky™ Double Pink ConeflowerDouble Pink Echinacea is an upright free branching native perennial with strong stems that do not need staking and dark green foliage. Double Pink Echinacea has huge 5 fragrant flowers with double rows of pale rose pink downward arching petals and an orange center cones that bloom from late spring to late summer, and occasionally an additional bloom in fall. Thrives in full sun and well drained soils. The flowers attract butterflies and bees, and

Double Pink Echinacea is an upright free-branching native perennial with strong stems that do not need staking and dark green foliage.  Double Pink Echinacea has huge 5” fragrant flowers with double rows of pale rose-pink downward arching petals and an orange center cones that bloom from late spring to late summer, and occasionally an additional bloom in fall.  Thrives in full sun and well-drained soils.  The flowers attract butterflies and bees, and spent stems will stay erect and attract birds if not removed.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance.  Susceptible to aster yellows disease and eriophyid mites.  Heat and drought tolerant.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Garden, Rock Gardens, Groundcover, Native Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Baby’s Breath, Salvia, Catmint

IMAGES: ItsSaul Plants, ECHINACEA 'GEMINI PINK' PP#22102, (2) http://www.ForestWander.com, Butterfly-Cone-Flowers ForestWander, CC BY-SA 3.0 US, (3) Puddin Tain, Purple Coneflower 1, (4) Herry Lawford, Old Swan House

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.