USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Vibrant Dark Pink

Flower Size: 4-5" diameter

Flowering Period:  Late Spring through Late Summer or Early Fall

Flower Type:  Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers:  -

Foliage Color:  Rich Green

Fragrant Foliage:  -

Berries:  -

Berry Color:  -

Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-30F / Zones 4-9), Deer - more info, Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit, Rocky Soil, Clay Soil (amended)

Watermelon Deluxe is an adorable Coneflower in the Double Scoop Echinacea series. It features abundant double flowers from late spring through summer above a mound of clean, rich green foliage. Deluxe varieties are more compact with better branching and produce more flowers than other double-flowered coneflowers. They bloom during their first year, and the flowers don't bleach out like other varieties. The eye-catching flowers feature a dense pom-pom of vibrant, dark pink petals surrounded by a skirt of bright pink petals. The flowers are perched atop sturdy stems that rise above the foliage mound and are excellent for cutting and use in a vase or flower arrangement. Reaching maybe 24 inches tall in bloom and nearly as wide, Watermelon Deluxe is a fine accent in smaller garden spaces and containers or grouped where space allows. Drought, deer, heat, humidity, poor soil tolerance, and a sizzling show of color throughout the summer, what more can we and the butterflies and hummingbirds ask for?

The Watermelon Deluxe Coneflower is very easy to grow. It is a highly adaptable plant that is tolerant of drought, heat, humidity, and poor soil. It will grow in most moist but well-drained soils of average fertility. It flowers best in full sun but also does well and blooms in part shade. Five or more hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested. Spent flowers can be removed through the long bloom season. That said, towards the end of the bloom season, we always leave some spent flowers/seed heads on the plant for winter interest and to feed the birds.