Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red PP23105

Scientific Name: Echinacea 'Balsomsed'

Also Known As

Echinacea 'Salsa Red'
Echinacea 'Sombrero® Salsa Red '
Echinacea Sombrero Salsa™
CONEFLOWER
Salsa Red Coneflower
Sombrero® Salsa Red Coneflower

Plant type

perennial

size

H: 12"-24"
W: 8"-12"

planting zones

4a-9b

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Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red PP23105 plant details

Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red PP23105 is a broadleaf deciduous perennial with green foliage. In summer orange and red flowers emerge. Features fuzzy texture. Attracts bees, beneficial insects, butterflies and hummingbirds making it an excellent addition to pollinator gardens. Grows well with sun - mostly sun and regular - low water. Does well in average and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something heat tolerant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red PP23105

Plant type: perennial
Plant family: asteraceae
Foliage: deciduous green
Mature size: 8 IN - 12 IN - wide, 12 IN - 24 IN - tall
Flowers: orange and red blooms in summer
Uses: compact, cottage garden, cutting garden, easy-to-grow, long-blooming

GROWING CONDITIONS for Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red PP23105

USDA Zones: 4a - 9b
Sun exposure: sun - mostly sun
Watering frequency: regular - low
Resistant to: heat
Soil needs: average and well-drained

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Chili-pepper-red sombreros with a pom-pom on top make this compact, well-branched 24" perennial a bright-light in border or vase over all three!! summer months. S/M/GDr PPAF

By: Forestfarm

Echinacea Sombrero® Salsa Red displays single rows of drooping, deep orange-red ray petals around a sombrero-shaped, orange-brown cone. The lightly fragrant flowers attract butterflies! Provides long lasting color in the garden. Coneflower is easy to grow in any well-drained soil. It requires little water once established. Plant in mixed borders, cutting gardens and mass plantings. Deadhead regularly, but leave last flower heads for birds.

By: Little Prince of Oregon

We've heard a few reports that this compact zesty coneflower has staying power in the garden. Bred to grow 18-24" tall, it bursts into bloom mid summer with bright orange red daisies. Grow in well drained soil in full sun. Favored by butterflies and bees, and rabbits are not fond of it.

By: Avant Gardens

I saw this plant in flower a year before its release and the flowers are likely the best true red yet offered from the hybrid coneflowers. The colour is not deep orange, not a hot orange-red but actually almost borders on a cool blue-red. Very floriferous, rich, deep red colour. The Sombrero Series offers well-branched, dwarf plants which produce lots of flowers. Echinacea in coastal BC should be planted in hot, dry, sunny spots with thin, average to poor soils for best overwintering.