Echinacea 'Green Envy'
by jodi
(Nova Scotia, Canada)
Green Envy Echinacea
Like the name says...this coneflower really IS green. As it matures there is also rosey pink in the flower, and the cones darken from green to russet-brown.
It's an expensive perennial because it's new on the market (at least in my area) this year and in short supply. The first one I bought didn't do well (the stock came in from some other nursery and the plants were a bit spleeny. The nursery where I purchased it offered a refund or exchange so I picked up a second plant from a shipment they got from another plant breeder. (then I bought another one for good measure.)
Both plants are thriving, putting up lots of new growth around their crowns, and haven't stopped flowering, either. I'm addicted to coneflowers and have had success with the Big Sky cultivars I have, so I hope that Green Envy will establish itself that well too! (Ask me in the spring how it overwintered!).
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