Aloha

Just planning for next spring. Have any of you had any experience with "Aloha"?

My linner croaked. The yellow cones have not gotten very good PR.

Aloha was beautiful in my garden, sturdy and filled in nicely. it's more of a melon yellow that a yellow yellow.
the picture is of aloha in quart pots in late june 2011.

Looks like another Terra Nova dud to me. The plants are blooming when they are that tiny. I bet many people will report on them dying.

hunted around my hard drive and here's a row of aloha growing with some red hot poker in my friends garden.

Just gorgeous!!! I might try that again. This time i'm looking for a gallon size plant with growth at the bottom. The plants that are small and have one bloom stock on a small plant just don't fair well here. I did cut the bloom stem off on some but they croaked anyway. This will be my thrid year for some of my hybrids. This is the year they leap right!!

i think it's more about giving them lots of sun and barely enough water with a nice thick layer of mulch around the crown. did you see the southern belle pictures? it was a rooted in 4-inch plant in middle of july when i planted it and it's still blooming in the garden. today!
they do not take well to being grown in pots unless you can control the light they get.

I will wait about buying any yellow Echinaceas. I have seen too many of them that failed to grow in most gardens. Did anyone get "Now Cheesier," "Maui Sunshine" or "Mac n Cheese" to survive? They won't grow here. Most nurseries around here aren't carrying any of the new Echinaceas because too many of the Terra Nova plants won't grow.

They all croaked for me! I still have 'harvest moon' only yellow that is still alive for me.

i have 'Summer Breeze' and 'Cleopatra' trialing here. both of these yellow varieties are dormant (i hope) right now. Both are more of a clear yellow than Aloha.

Do you have any pictures?

they haven't bloomed yet. cleopatra looks good and sturdy so far, i have them in 4-inch pots, in the cold house. summer breeze is in the ground and dormant (dead looking stuff sticking up).

Darn, love pictures. Keep us posted. Hows the knee?

going to the y for swimming and exercise. worried it will never be 'right' again. it has to improve a bit more as I want to walk part of the camino de santiago this summer.

Swimming is good. Takes all the weight of the joint. Sounds like you are doing all you can. What is the Camino de santiago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James

it's an ancient pilgrimage route. there's a movie out about it recently with martin sheen. 'The Way'

Interesting! Good luck with the rehab and hope you can do the journey.