Echinacea Ruby Star Seeds

Tall plants are vigorous sturdy and long blooming flowers begin in midsummer and continue well into the fall.

Echinacea ruby star seeds. The intense carmine red petals are held horizontally from the center cone giving rubinstern a very beautiful and distinctive look. Plants may be easily divided in early spring. Upright clump which is a favourite feeding station for many butterflies. Specific epithet means purple.

This breeding effort has resulted in more uniformly sized plants with large more darkly colored flowers. Large intense carmine red daisy like blooms with a maroon center. Genus name of echinacea comes from the greek word echinos meaning hedgehog or sea urchin in reference to the spiny center cone found on most flowers in the genus. Shop with confidence for quality trees shrubs and perennials.

Echinacea purpurea ruby star is my favorite purple coneflower. Ruby star will produce gorgeous blooms atop foliage that grows up to 3 feet tall. The 3 to 3 ft. Buy ruby star coneflower online at mckay nursery company.

Buy ruby star echinacea seeds. It was named cut flower of the year 2006. The most reliable coneflower available today ruby star has flat topped large blooms in intense pink purple that bloom all summer. Echinacea purpurea ruby star.

Grow ruby star coneflower from freshly harvested echinacea purpurea flower seeds. Easy and tough as nails it is a valuable plant for borders and meadow plantings attracting butterflies and later becoming a natural birdfeeder. Their roots have famous medicinal qualities they make great long lasting cut flowers and attract numerous butterflies and. Ruby star echinacea produces large long lasting intense rose purple blooms with horizontal flower petals and deep bronze cones.

Plants are easy to grow tough and heat and drought tolerant once established. The stunning flowers have deep reddish mauve petals and orange brown central cones. Echinacea purpurea ruby star sku 1822 flower petals are first held horizontally then relax as the flowers age and the cone like centers become more pronounced. The petals are held horizontally.

Introduced by jelitto who gave us magnus echinacea ruby star is a slightly shorter plant with large flat topped flowers that are a deeper purple pink almost ruby red than most others. Flowers are held on long strong stems perfect for cutting. 40 42 tall x 18 wide. Rubinstern meaning ruby star is a purple coneflower seed cultivar that typically grows 2 3 tall.

Rubinstern ruby star is an exciting improved variety of magnus developed by jelitto perennial seeds of germany. Seed heads are useful in dried arrangements.