Echinacea purpurea 'Leuchtstern' Bright Star

Echinacea purpurea 'Leuchtstern' Bright StarBuy 1 for $14. 00 Buy 5 for $60. 00 Larger blooms of lavender rosy pink flowers sets 'Bright Star' apart from all other Echinacea. Flowers are born in mid Summer through to Autumn. Described as having extraordinarily heavy flowering. Bold, sturdy and dramatic. Contrasts wonderfully with billowing Miscanthus 'Kleine Fontaine' or 'Adagio'. Makes a great cut flower even after the petals have dropped. 80cm x 50cm.

Sun loving but can also handle some shade

An evergreen grass that never needs cutting back

Compliments ornamental grasses

It can't be cut down like some other Salvias as it doesn't come back well from heavy pruning

First flowers appear in mid Spring and last flowers at the end of Summer

Makes a great hedge or specimen plant

Compact to 60cm tall

This is a tender Salvia variety

trumpet shaped flowers of deep orange red that hang from branches on a 3m tall shrub

The colour is initially intense with a strong saffron yellow colouring and fading to soft butter and beige

Also makes a great cut flower with its well spaced shimmering pin-cushion flowers

almost black calyces