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

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Red-Orange

Flower Size: 3-4" diameter

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Late Summer-Early Fall

Flower Type:  Coneflower

Fragrant Flowers:  -

Foliage Color:  Rich Green

Fragrant Foliage:  -

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

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)

The Hot Papaya Coneflower features showy, double flowers above a mound of clean, rich green foliage. The abundant, eye-catching double flowers in sizzling shades of orange and red have a dense pom-pom of petals surrounded by a skirt of lower drooping petals. The flowers are perched atop sturdy, branched stems and are excellent for cutting and display in a vase or flower arrangement. Reaching 2 to 3 feet tall and equally wide, Hot Papaya 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 Hot Papaya 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. We recommend at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day. 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.