Echinacea purpurea 'Raspberry Truffle' PP22612
Common Name: Coneflower
Brilliant plant hybridizer Arie Blom has done it again! Adding to his colorful CONE-FECTIONS™ Series, the new ‘Raspberry Truffle’ offers a completely different shade of coneflower we haven’t seen until now. Imagine a deliciously fragrant, strawberry peach smoothie with a dollop of milk chocolate on top and you have ‘Raspberry Truffle’.
The flowers emerge single coral pink with a chocolate cone and then develop their pom-pom center as they mature. Fully opened 4inch flowers have strawberry peach, horizontally held ray petals and a broad, darker pink pom-pom. All are produced on showy dark stems that really help to set off the unique flower color.
But wait, there’s more! Awesome flower color is just one of this new and improved perennial’s best features.
This plant is an incredibly vigorous grower with a spectacular habit. In our trials, we planted 72ct plugs in the ground in spring and by mid-August that same year, the plants were larger than a 1-gal sized specimen. We do have ideal growing conditions for Echinacea in our trials and consequently our plants grew larger than those in some other trials. However, we’ve all been incredibly impressed with this new plant’s performance.
If you’re looking for a beautiful new Echinacea with a bushy, upright habit, this is the one!
Praised for their cheerful brightly colored flowers, coneflowers are a mainstay in today's garden. Be sure to leave some spent blooms on the plants in the fall because their seeds provide winter food for finches and other birds. The dried seed heads also provide architectural interest in the winter.
