Best of Echinacea Trials

Echinacea is a garden staple that has a place in every perennial program. Whether you are growing Echinacea from seed, tissue culture (TC), liners, or vegetative cuttings (URC), we have an amazing selection of Echinacea to recommend for your program.

Seed

From seed, we have some excellent series available from Syngenta Flowers. Their Prairie Splendor™ series is a classic with pink and white tones available in compact habits. If you are looking for something more vibrant, Syngenta's sister-series Prairie Blaze™ has the same compact habit and timing as Prairie Splendor™ in novelty colors such as Vintage Lime, Orange Sunset, Golden Yellow, and Green. These open-pollinated varieties are first-year flowering and optimized for mass production. Zone 3 hardy!

TC - Tissue Culture

Looking for a premium finished Echinacea for retail sales? The SunMagic® Vintage series from Bull Plant Genetics is your best choice. These TC varieties uniquely branch from the base for a fuller habit and high flower counts without the need for pinching or PGRs. SunMagic® begins blooming in June and continues to put out new flowers well into Autumn, holding their cones for increased winter interest as well.

URC - Vegetative Cuttings

Curious about URC Echinacea? Danziger has a growing collection of Echinacea available from vegetative cutting including the popular PANAMA™ Red and GUATEMALA™ Gold. These varieties are first-year flowering, quick and easy to propagate, and bloom as early as week 22-24. New this year are PANAMA™ Rose and GUATEMALA™ Papaya.

Best of Echinacea Trials

If you are unsure of what will work best for you, check out the performance of these ThinkPlants Echinacea in Summer Grower trials across North America. In this roundup, you can select the Echinacea you are most interested in and see how it looked in a trial garden near you. Click on a photo below to learn more.