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• No wonder PowWow Wild Berry won an All-America Selection Award 2010 (continues to pile up honors). It's not only the most brilliantly colored Echinacea yet, but it's also the best branched, which means more flowers all season. It doesn't need to be deadheaded to set new buds, so the flowers just keep coming. It's compact, you can grow it in a container, or squeeze it into that crowded sunny border. Oh, & did we mention that it blooms the first year, just 20 weeks from sowing the seed.
• It's truly a breakthrough for the Echinacea purpurea family. The bloom color is fade-proof and absolutely unique. (The flowers make terrific everlastings as well as fresh-cut bouquets, by the way.) The flowers are so profuse on these compact little plants, beginning in early summer & then going right into fall until nipped back by frost. Like all echinacea, PowWow Wild Berry attracts butterflies & bees to the fresh blooms in summer & birds to the seed-filled cones in autumn & winter.
• This plant reaches just 20 to 24 inches high when not in bloom, and spreads 12 to 16 inches wide. Despite this small size, it bears more blooms than just about any other echinacea we've ever grown. The flowers add another 9 to 12 inches to the plant's height, giving you thick, long lasting stems for the vase. And you don't have to keep up with pinching off the fading blooms.
• Adaptable to just about any climate in the United States and indifferent to extremes of heat, humidity, cold, and even drought, PowWow Wild Berry thrives in any well-drained soil. It will bloom best in full sun and good garden soil that dries out just a bit between waterings', but it can take almost any conditions your garden and Mother Nature throws its way.
• The most exciting feature of this seed is its ability to bloom profusely, the first summer from a winter to early spring sowing. For best first-year flowering, sow the seeds right after you receive them, especially if you live in a short-season climate. Germinate at about 65 to 70 F, then grown on (after they have sprouted) at 55 to 65 F. When they have 2 sets of true leaves & the garden soil is warm enough to work with, they are ready to transplant into the sunny garden.