Pale Purple Coneflower
$3.50
Unit price per🌾 Echinacea pallida – Graceful Native Coneflower for Meadows & Pollinator Gardens
Bring soft movement and native charm to your garden with Pale Purple Coneflower.
This long-lived perennial features slender, drooping petals in pale lavender-pink surrounding a bold, spiky cone. Blooming from early to mid-summer, it attracts bees, butterflies, and birds while thriving in poor soils and dry conditions. With its tall, airy stems and minimal maintenance needs, it’s perfect for wildflower gardens, prairie-style plantings, and naturalised borders.
- Botanical Name: Echinacea pallida
- Height & Spread: 90–150cm tall × 30–45cm wide
- Position: Full sun
- Soil: Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor fertility
- Flowering Period: Early to mid-summer
- Uses: Native gardens, borders, pollinator habitats, cut flowers
- Other Names: Pale Coneflower, Narrow-leaved Coneflower
- Approx. 0.100g/20 seeds
Why You'll Love It:
- Graceful, drooping petals with a bold central cone
- Drought-tolerant and easy to grow from seed
- Attracts bees, butterflies, and seed-eating birds
- Perennial—returns year after year
- Ideal for low-maintenance and ecological plantings
🌱 Growing Instructions (Care Guide)
🌞 Sunlight:
Requires full sun (6+ hours daily) for strong stems and prolific flowering.
🌱 Soil:
Prefers well-drained sandy or loamy soil. Tolerates poor, dry, rocky, or alkaline conditions. Avoid heavy clay or waterlogged areas.
🌱 Sowing Instructions:
- Sow seeds directly in autumn or cold stratify indoors for 30–60 days before spring sowing
- Sow 5mm deep; germinates in 10–30 days at 15–20°C
- Space plants 30–45cm apart
💧 Watering:
Water regularly during establishment. Once mature, water sparingly—highly drought-tolerant.
✂️ Maintenance:
- Deadhead to prolong bloom or allow seedheads to mature for wildlife
- Cut back stems in late autumn or early spring
- Divide clumps every 3–4 years to maintain vigor
🌼 Tip:
Pair with Coreopsis, Liatris, or Rudbeckia for a layered prairie-style border. Ideal for warm-temperate climates like Victoria.
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🌾 Echinacea pallida – Graceful Native Coneflower for Meadows & Pollinator Gardens
Bring soft movement and native charm to your garden with Pale Purple Coneflower.
This long-lived perennial features slender, drooping petals in pale lavender-pink surrounding a bold, spiky cone. Blooming from early to mid-summer, it attracts bees, butterflies, and birds while thriving in poor soils and dry conditions. With its tall, airy stems and minimal maintenance needs, it’s perfect for wildflower gardens, prairie-style plantings, and naturalised borders.
- Botanical Name: Echinacea pallida
- Height & Spread: 90–150cm tall × 30–45cm wide
- Position: Full sun
- Soil: Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor fertility
- Flowering Period: Early to mid-summer
- Uses: Native gardens, borders, pollinator habitats, cut flowers
- Other Names: Pale Coneflower, Narrow-leaved Coneflower
- Approx. 0.100g/20 seeds
Why You'll Love It:
- Graceful, drooping petals with a bold central cone
- Drought-tolerant and easy to grow from seed
- Attracts bees, butterflies, and seed-eating birds
- Perennial—returns year after year
- Ideal for low-maintenance and ecological plantings
🌱 Growing Instructions (Care Guide)
🌞 Sunlight:
Requires full sun (6+ hours daily) for strong stems and prolific flowering.
🌱 Soil:
Prefers well-drained sandy or loamy soil. Tolerates poor, dry, rocky, or alkaline conditions. Avoid heavy clay or waterlogged areas.
🌱 Sowing Instructions:
- Sow seeds directly in autumn or cold stratify indoors for 30–60 days before spring sowing
- Sow 5mm deep; germinates in 10–30 days at 15–20°C
- Space plants 30–45cm apart
💧 Watering:
Water regularly during establishment. Once mature, water sparingly—highly drought-tolerant.
✂️ Maintenance:
- Deadhead to prolong bloom or allow seedheads to mature for wildlife
- Cut back stems in late autumn or early spring
- Divide clumps every 3–4 years to maintain vigor
🌼 Tip:
Pair with Coreopsis, Liatris, or Rudbeckia for a layered prairie-style border. Ideal for warm-temperate climates like Victoria.
