Echinacea 'Sunseekers Golden Sun' - Golden Coneflower
A radiant golden coneflower bringing sunshine colours and wildlife value to summer borders. This vigorous variety produces an abundance of large cheerful blooms with distinctive prominent cones, creating long-lasting colour and attracting beneficial insects.
Seasonal Highlights
From midsummer through to autumn, a continuous succession of golden-yellow flowers with striking orange-bronze central cones provide vibrant colour. Seedheads persist into winter, offering structural interest and food for birds.
Key Features
- Large golden-yellow flowers
- Prominent orange-bronze cones
- Long flowering period
- Fully hardy to -15°C
- Excellent for pollinators
- Drought tolerant
- Outstanding cut flower
Perfect For
Sunny borders, prairie-style plantings, wildlife gardens, and cutting gardens. Ideal in naturalistic schemes or mixed perennial borders where its vibrant colour and wildlife value can shine.
Growing Tips
Plant in full sun in well-drained soil. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering or leave seedheads for winter interest and birds. Divide clumps every 3-4 years in spring. Mulch in spring. Drought tolerant once established but benefits from watering during prolonged dry spells.
Looks Great With
Stunning alongside ornamental grasses, rudbeckias, heleniums, or purple salvias. Beautiful with bronze sedges or contrasting blue agapanthus. Works perfectly in hot-coloured schemes.
An outstanding choice for long-lasting summer colour, bringing sunshine tones and valuable wildlife habitat to sunny gardens with minimal maintenance.