Expensive, temperamental and slugs love to munch on it. This perennial plant's form, good looks and late flowering qualities make it a personal favourite despite its reputation as an 'expert's' plant.
Echinaceas are usually on sale towards the middle/ end of summer just ready to bloom or already flowering. My advice is take your plant home, admire it for a day or two in flower, then chop all the flowers off! NO, I AM NOT JOKING. If you do not take the flowers off, the following year it may not come through the winter and if it does, it will probably be a pathetic spindly plant. By chopping the flowers off, more of the plant's energy goes into establishing its roots.
Personnally, once the flowers are off I put them in bigger pot with more compost and put them in a sunnyish spot until the next year. I do not let the compost dry out. When gowth is well underway but before flowering I plant them in their final position.
They like a sunny position and anything other than very dry or very wet soil.
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