Did Your PowWow Wild Berry Echinacea Survive The Winter?
catkinZ8a
8 years ago
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Comments (10)Your 'Pow Wow' plants look lovely! I am one of the ones who did not have luck with this series, my 'Wildberry' plants being weak, sickly growers (none survived the winter) and with a washed out, pale pink color. Nothing like the wonderful dark pink in your photo! The one echinacea that is truly surprising me is 'Milkshake' which came as an unexpected freebie with an order last year. When I got it I thought to myself "Ugh, another echinacea that is going to die..", so I planted it just any old place with no thought or planning. And now, just to mock me, it has grown into a robust, healthy clump loaded with vigor and beautiful, creamy white flowers. Problem is, I mainly wanted to grow echinacea due to their attractiveness to insect pollinators and I think 'Milkshake' with its fully double flowers has no pollen or nectar to offer! Sigh... It is beautiful though, much more so than it appears in photos. Much more striking and elegant than shasta daisies. So that has been my experience with echinacea so far. The ones I start from seed and lovingly tend thinking they are going to be stunning = duds. The ones I get for free and plunk in an unfavorable location thinking they are going to be duds = stunning. Here is a quick snapshot of 'Milkshake' taken with my phone from a week ago when it started to unfurl its petals. Other plants are Geranium 'Rozanne', Agastache 'Blue Blazes', Eryngium giganteum and Geum 'Totally Tangerine'....See MoreColor of newly opened Echinacea 'PowWow Wild Berry'
Comments (13)How many buds have opened as of now? I have two plants. Both purchased from nurseries. I had my FFO on one earlier in the year and blown away by the deep, saturated color. It's gorgeous! The second plant came from a trade, but I know it was purchased by how it was packaged with it's tag. It just bloomed this past week and was much lighter than my other one. Because it has only opened one flower, I'm waiting to see what others will look like. The first plant I mentioned is a year old. It did not bloom last year and has cycled through an entire year. I don't know if that makes a difference in the color or not. The trade plant is young and much smaller than my established one. Linda...See MoreMixing Wild Berry & White PowWow Coneflowers in a planting group?
Comments (2)Hi CEFreeman, I read your posts on the Kitchen Forum, I hadn't realized I could find you here also! Thanks for your response. The pictures I have found of white being a contrast color (such as in a field or bouquet) to blue or red or pink (or whatever) show a mixture of individual flowers. The white breaks up the visual, causing the color to pop, and not be all the same color. You are right, it is stunning. But these echinacea are not single bulbs, but a grouping of white and another grouping of the wildberry color. It is very hard to find any photos online where they are grouped together, and when they are (such as this photo), they still look like a row (although a few whites seem to have gotten in the back of the berry in the photo). I am finding it hard to imagine a 'circle' where they would mingle, because the spread of each is 12 - 18 inches, making a grouping of one color. If you planted them closer together, I think it would just look crowded, not mixed anywhere except at the overlap point. I think that would look sloppy and careless, not pretty and wild, plus it wouldn't be as good for the plant to not let it reach its potential width. I hope I am explaining it so that it makes sense. Thanks again for your input, and any thoughts in helping me to imagine how they may look when filled in. Maybe I can do a white grouping, a berry, a white, a berry, and a white. Even though they would be in a row, and look a little like an alternating checkerboard, it is the closest I can imagine to a pattern with one color offsetting the other....See MoreSo how did your winter go?
Comments (3)This was a good winter to see what is really hardy here. The australian cassias (nemophylla and phyllodena) were both frozen to the roots. They sure were fun cutting back - not! I just had to prune out a lot of winter damage on our Cordia parvifolia, little leafed cordia. That bush is the worst to prune because all the branches grow at right angles, what a mess but I adore the plant. Something about the white crepe paper blooms against the smoky grey leaves that come all through the heat of summer. And a plant that is unfazed by reflected heat here in Las Vegas is quite a find. It's relative Cordia boissieri, Texas olive, took a much bigger hit. It was just going from a bush to a tree and then we had this cold winter. It has been killed back to the main trunk. I think all the side branches are dead. I'm going to give it more time before pruning but it doesn't look good. We saw one in the northwest that looked fine so it is just our nice little cold spot microclimate here. Webers agave, and octopus agave were total losses in our yard but it was fun going to Turner greenhouses and finding replacements by seeing what was still standing there. Now if only our horse hadn't broken into our yard and tried to take a few bites out of the replacements! The bouganvillea froze to the ground but that happens every year and it popped right up this spring like it always does. We took down the old trellis though and better get up a new one if we don't want it sprawling all over as it is such a fast grower. The myoporum, anaother australian plant looked dead after our cold but it is coming back nicely and I can barely tell that it got damaged. We lost a few other australian plants, some of them can be tender and our beautiful tree acacia pendula still has perfectly brown leaves hanging on and has made no move at leafing out and neither has our acacia shafneri. The least thing they could do is let loose of all those awful looking dried up leaves! One plant that surprised me was our lantanas that always come back but not after this winter. Replaced the ones in the back with more drought tolerant Dalea greggii but the one in the front I love where it is so just got another white one to recreate that look against our grey wall. Love the look of white agaist grey. Drahme when you say cranberry tree I don't know what you mean, I only know the thanksgiving berries and I know those don't come off a tree. A different world up north. Beca, those vines do have a way of taking over the yard. At my husbands step mom's house she is in the process of taking out a huge mass of vines that took over the walls and then started on the garden. She is going to need a dumpster for all that vegetation. Happy gardening, Maria...See More
catkinZ8a
8 years ago
Michaela (Zone 5b - Iowa)
7 years agoMine did - they are shorter than my other cone flowers, but they also are in more shade too. There are a ton of seedlings in that area that I believe are the pow wows... I'm hoping!
catkinZ8a thanked Michaela (Zone 5b - Iowa)junco1102
7 years agoI've been very happy with my Pow Wow Wild Berry. I planted them three years ago and they have survived a couple of very dry summers and cold winters.
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7 years agosunnyborders
7 years agoHave bought PowWow Wild Berry and White over the last four or so years. They seem quite hardy here.
This year, several of our PowWow seem unusually tall. Pictures below today. Some of the stems of the Wild Berry and the White have reached 40 inches in height.
catkinZ8a
7 years ago
FrozeBudd_z3/4
7 years agoI have many of these that I've grown from seed, a simple task that's easy on the pocketbook! I like growing them out in numbers and selecting the best of the lot.
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texasranger2
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMine has looked like this since mid July here in central Oklahoma. Not much Pow Wow for the buck in our hot summers. Like I said, its thirsty and doesn't seem to like the heat down here. It punks out early, did the same thing last year but yes, it survives winter. I'm sticking with the unimproved types, no molly coddling here even though I have taken pity on it and watered it every week since I have a salvia close by I'm trying to get established. Otherwise, even the foliage would be toast.
Since we are asking how'd they do.....I give it a low rating. To be fair, I have just about come to the conclusion that your summer further north is like our spring. These don't do summer here, down here I consider it a spring bloomer.
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