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Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' - PURPLE CONEFLOWER 'MAGNUS'
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ECH-PUR-MAGN
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Large-flowered soft pink, 4" in diameter. Newer blooms are more intense in color and lighten to pale rose as they age (bicolor effect of the entire clump).
Popular cultivar of native plant, awarded the Perennial Plant Association’s Plant of the Year in 1998.
Blooming Time: early to late summer, with the flower peak in mid July
Size: 36" tall x 18-24" wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: sun, half sun, half shade, average soil, clay soil, loam, rocky soil, drained soils, adaptable
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry, drought tolerant once established
Origin: This is seed line cultivar was found at the nursery of Magnus B. Nilsson. The botanical species (wild form) can be found in Eastern North America, native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods, woodland edges of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and Georgia).
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: monarch plant and true pollinator magnet for native bees, honey bees, butterflies and skippers seek the nectar. Caterpillars of the Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly and several moths feed on the foliage and flowers.
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes. Attracts little song birds and goldfinch feed on the seeds.
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
Plant combinations: The best perennial combinations include many border perennials; due to it’s rough structure it looks very good with more finely-structured grasses. Great in prairie style borders, conventional flower beds, public spaces and gardens, small private gardens, cottage gardens, sunnier woodland edge garden or and rain gardens. The possibilities of use and combinations are nearly never-ending.
With native perennials: Agastache, Aster, Asclepias (tuberosa, sullivantii, purpurascens), Baptisia, Eupatorium, Eryngium, Gaura, Helenium, Monarda, Phlox, Rudbeckia, Solidago, Veronicastrum, or native prairie grasses like Adropogon gerardii, Eragrostis spectabilis, Panicum virgatum, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus heterolepis, etc. Unforgettable combinations with non-native perennials include Eryngium, Echinops, hardy Geranium, Hemerocallis, Kniphophia, Origanum, Perovskia, and grasses like Pennisetum.
If you like annuals, combine it with single-colored cultivars of Cleome, Cosmos, Zinnia or Verbena bonariensis, or annual grasses like Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' and others.
Picture copyright: 1 - Mt. Cuba, 2 - US Perennials
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Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' - PURPLE CONEFLOWER 'MAGNUS'
$7.99
Large-flowered soft pink, 4" in diameter. Newer blooms are more intense in color and lighten to pale rose as they age (bicolor effect of the entire clump).
Popular cultivar of native plant, awarded the Perennial Plant Association’s Plant of the Year in 1998.
Blooming Time: early to late summer, with the flower peak in mid July
Size: 36" tall x 18-24" wide
USDA Zones: 3 to 8
Culture: sun, half sun, half shade, average soil, clay soil, loam, rocky soil, drained soils, adaptable
Moisture Needs: medium, medium-dry, drought tolerant once established
Origin: This is seed line cultivar was found at the nursery of Magnus B. Nilsson. The botanical species (wild form) can be found in Eastern North America, native to moist prairies, meadows and open woods, woodland edges of the central to southeastern United States (Ohio to Michigan to Iowa south to Louisiana and Georgia).
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: monarch plant and true pollinator magnet for native bees, honey bees, butterflies and skippers seek the nectar. Caterpillars of the Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly and several moths feed on the foliage and flowers.
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes. Attracts little song birds and goldfinch feed on the seeds.
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
Plant combinations: The best perennial combinations include many border perennials; due to it’s rough structure it looks very good with more finely-structured grasses. Great in prairie style borders, conventional flower beds, public spaces and gardens, small private gardens, cottage gardens, sunnier woodland edge garden or and rain gardens. The possibilities of use and combinations are nearly never-ending.
With native perennials: Agastache, Aster, Asclepias (tuberosa, sullivantii, purpurascens), Baptisia, Eupatorium, Eryngium, Gaura, Helenium, Monarda, Phlox, Rudbeckia, Solidago, Veronicastrum, or native prairie grasses like Adropogon gerardii, Eragrostis spectabilis, Panicum virgatum, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus heterolepis, etc. Unforgettable combinations with non-native perennials include Eryngium, Echinops, hardy Geranium, Hemerocallis, Kniphophia, Origanum, Perovskia, and grasses like Pennisetum.
If you like annuals, combine it with single-colored cultivars of Cleome, Cosmos, Zinnia or Verbena bonariensis, or annual grasses like Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' and others.
Picture copyright: 1 - Mt. Cuba, 2 - US Perennials
