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Shhh! Please don’t tell our Echinacea it’s time to flower.

Shhh! Please don’t tell our Echinacea it’s time to flower.

Posted by John Friel on Jun 18th 2022

(We’re keeping it in the dark!)Sales Opportunity: Late summer/early fall market for fresh, flowering perennials.  Sales Barrier: Perennial fave Echinacea is flowered out, way past “fresh” by then.Winning Solution: Our short-day Echinacea program!Starting in spring, we delay the flowering response of a popular coneflower by manipulating (shortening) its daylength. The treated liners are like little green time machines: They make up for lost time in your pots, setting buds and blooming weeks

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