Echinacea ‘Guava Ice’ PPAF
A Cool New Color for our Cone-fections Collection
| Size | 24-30” tall by 24-36” wide |
| USDA hardiness Zones | 5(4) – 9 |
| Sun / Shade | Full sun. |
| Soil | Average garden soil, well drained. |
| Moisture | moist, but well drained to get established, once established, it is very drought tolerant. |
| Disease and Pests | None known. |
| Landscape use | Mixed border, foundation plantings, mass plantings, urban gardens, cutting gardens. |
| Market appeal / Uniqueness | Guava Ice has enormous, fully double guava colored blooms on thick, upright stems. It's a unique color, but a super-strong, sturdy plant with loads and loads of four inch diameter blooms. |
| Propagation Methods | Tissue culture, divisions. |
| Date of Introduction | April, 2011 |
| Bloom Time | Late June for 14 to 16 weeks. |
Angela’s Garden Notes:
We are proud to be releasing this new selection which comes to us, once again, form the fantastically strong breeding lines of breeder Arie Blom of AB-Cultivars in The Netherlands. This selection is new to growers for 2011 and will not be available at a retail level until late 2011/early 2012.
This is a strong plant in the garden covered with healthy, deep green strapey foliage. Thick lime green stems hold the truly gigantic blooms way up high as they fade from deep orangey-pink to a cooling shade of guava.
We adore this novel color and we're so impressed that the stems can support these buxom blossoms and never flop. The reflexed ray petals are the color of ripe guava fruit and they balance the enormous, fully double cone.
Every time we look at these blooms, we crave a fruity snow cone.
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