Kim's Knee High Coneflower

Description:

Stunning compact flowers in bright pink with ray-like petals and rich harvest golden centers, strong stems make for great cut flowers, tolerant of drier conditions, ideal for low-water gardens

Ornamental Features:

Kim's Knee High Coneflower features beautiful lightly-scented pink daisy flowers with harvest gold eyes at the ends of the stems from mid summer to mid fall, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's pointy leaves remain forest green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Kim's Knee High Coneflower is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Kim's Knee High Coneflower is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• Container Planting
• Rock/Alpine Gardens

Plant Characteristics:

Kim's Knee High Coneflower will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under typical garden conditions. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.