From Bluestone Perennials in fall 2019, added more in 2021
Echinacea purpurea 'Pow Wow White'
From Bluestone Perennials in fall 2019, added more in 2020 and 2021
From Bluestone Perennials in spring 2022
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Like 'Leilani' the 'Pow wow white' coneflowers are sturdy and need no staking.
In 2021 I added a couple to the kitchen courtyard, where they get more sun than the ones in the dining room window garden. The 'Leilani' coneflowers in sun in the kitchen courtyard suffered badly when we had hot dry weather in June, wilting and scorching, but they recovered.
I originally put four 'Pow Wow White' coneflowers at the back of the strip by the fence near the patio table, for some height and long bloom. They did bloom but weren't very tall and struggled.
I put a couple in the shady potting bench curve and they did better than the ones in the sunny strip by the fence.
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Expectations:
'Leilani' coneflower gets rave reviews -- upright, no staking, long bloom time. It is a lovely rich golden yellow. Stays quite short.
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| 'Pow Wow White' |
In this climate coneflowers will take shade, although they are usually sun lovers. By fall the dining room window garden opens up and gets sunnier as the cottonwood drops its leaves, but summer is quite dark and shady.
The potting bench curve is shady most of the day. Both of these coneflowers are in mostly shade and seem to like it.
Experiences:
I planted a couple 'Leilani' at the back of the dining room window garden, between the columbines and the anemone for some height and summer color at the back.
I planted a couple 'Leilani' at the back of the dining room window garden, between the columbines and the anemone for some height and summer color at the back.
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| July 13, 2021 - mostly in shade |
In cooler weather, with a bit of rain, they look more robust than the ones in shade in the dining room window garden.
But the ones in shade, while not as full, do look nice and sturdy and bloom well.
** Coneflowers in my garden get eaten when the petals come out, leaving a raggy looking mess. They recover, and the plants are healthy enough, but the look is disappointing right at bloom time. **
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| 2023 |
I put a couple in the shady potting bench curve and they did better than the ones in the sunny strip by the fence.
Taller, more graceful, they stayed moister. In late June 2020, I moved all of the Pow Wow white coneflowers to the shadier potting bench curve.
Immediately I liked the look of them in dappled shade clumped together, not lined up in a row in hot sun on the verge of wilting all the time.
But over time in 2023 I started editing them out, as the shady potting bench curve under the aspens is too busy. I put a few in the kitchen courtyard, so there are now small, tidy clumps of both the golden Leilani and the Pow wow whites there.