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Mellow Yellows Echinacea

Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows'

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Mellow Yellows Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a study in harmony with beautiful blossoms ranging from cream to gold. Blooming from early summer to first frost, Mellow Yellows has a long-lasting steady supply of blooms, making it an essential garden workhorse. Butterflies, bees, and birds are frequent visitors to Echinacea, and you can leave tall, sturdy flowers up over the winter for visual interest and food supplies. Beautiful for cut flowers on long, sturdy stems.

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Description

‘Mellow Yellows’ Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) offers a harmonic palette of color all in one plant, ranging from cream to apricot to canary yellow. This breathtaking Echinacea is all you need for a brilliant parade of summer color. Plant these easy keepers in a sunny spot where they can show off. At a height of 24-30" tall, this coneflower is nice with Ornamental Grasses, Lavender, Agastache, and Monarda. Drought tolerant once established. Deer will generally stay away. Pollinator-friendly, this is a must-have native for the summer garden. Cut flowers for bouquets, and deadhead spent flowers to encourage more growth - but be sure to leave some blooms to dry as the birds love the seeds. The seed heads are lovely during winter too. 24-30" tall x 12-24" wide.

Planting & Care

Tips For Growing Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)

This genus is invaluable for the mid- to late-summer garden, bringing color into our plantings when many spring bloomers have gone green for the season. They are native to the eastern half of the U.S. and are most commonly found growing in prairie habitats.

Echinacea thrive in our gardens when provided with well drained soils, plenty of sunshine and moderate to dry moisture conditions depending on the species and cultivars. Healthy individual coneflowers will grow in the garden for 3 to 5 years. Species and cultivars raised from seed will often reseed themselves to continue their presence in our gardens.

'Rocky Top Hybrid' echinacea, while xeric, appreciates extra moisture provided by some easily accomplished water harvesting techniques. Plant it in a wide, shallow depression and mulch amply or place right up against the north side of a low, wide rock, tilted to shed water on the Echinacea's side.

Fall Care: You can leave the dried seed heads for winter, as they provide food for birds. Echinacea easily reseeds itself. You can cut back seed heads in the fall, where you don't wish the plant to reseed. Spring Care: Cut back the dry stalks to the crowns of the plant in early spring. Pull any unwanted seedlings in spring. They are easy to pull when young.

More in-depth guidance for growing and maintaining Echinacea plants: Purple Coneflowers: Native Grace and Beauty in the Garden and Echinacea: Rocky Top Hybrids.

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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (801) 769-0300 or contact us by email or chat.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Morning Sun & Afternoon Shade
  • Full Sun

Water Tolerance

Low-Water

Bloom Time

Early summer to mid fall

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Attracts Butterflies
  • Attracts Birds
  • Native
  • Long Bloom Time
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Cut Flowers
  • Deer Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

24-30" tall

Mature Spread

12-24" wide

Soil Type

  • Average Soil
  • Clay Soil
  • Compost Enriched Garden Loam Soil
  • Sandy Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet
  • Waterwise

Planting Time

  • Fall

Growing Zones

  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8

Neonicotinoid Free

Yes

Ships As

Potted Plant

Can Send To PO Box

No

Ships to Hawaii & Alaska

No

Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 12 reviews.

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Doing well

"Planted late summer and it's doing very well! And most amazing it's getting ready to bloom!!! I know it's hardy as we've been getting freezing mornings already and it's just pushing on through and putting on a show regardless. So pleased with this plant!"

— Melissa (5/5)

Variable Quality

"I ordered a flat of nine. I was disappointed with the variance in quality. Some arrived very healthy, others small and dried out. If they all came healthy, easily a five star product, if they all came small and dried out it would be one star."

— Page (3/5)

Looks good. Have high hopes.

"As noted, I am expecting good things from this plant. It certainly appears to have had the proper upbringing while at the nursery."

— Jkf (5/5)

Beautiful & Strong Blooms Already!!!

"Having a lot of river rock from previous owners in the landscaping… And our soil and area can be very extreme from drought & flood… & A lot of little critters that like to try and eat my plants! These are amazing… With beautiful new blooms only a month after I planted!"

— Jen (5/5)

Lovely yellows! #sweepstakes

"I have planted these in a bed away from the house. I am hoping they will fill in and join the daisies and asters for a low maintenance, low water bed."

— Perennial Q. (5/5)

Attention-getting

"These look great around any other plant - they are wonderful companion plants for anything. The colors range from buttery yellow to cream in year one."

— Anonymous (5/5)

Happy flowers!

"Pretty yellow flowers that are doing well."

— Cpb (5/5)

I definitely would buy this product again.

"I like the several shades of yellow than it gives me!"

— Janice (5/5)

Looks great with lambs ear and purple poppy mallow

"I love this echinacea! It's more of a pale, creamy yellow and a bit shorter than the classic purple cone flower but I love it!! Looks really great with the silvery lambs ear and bright purple poppy mallow it's paired with."

— Rachel (5/5)

I would buy this product again.

"A mainstay of several rose gardens and other perennial beds I've created, Echinacea purpurea blends beautifully with roses and other perennials, attracks pollinators, and enhances floral bouquets. Love the Mellow Yellow and Magnus varieties, which bloomed on and off from late spring into winter in Zone 9 (Louisiana). The problem after our move to New Mexico, where I added them to a few areas at home, was with the number of backyard wildlife (rabbits, squirrels, deer) that found them quite tasty. Protection would be needed for future plantings."

— Love2garden (5/5)

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