Echinacea, Eastern Purple Coneflower 'PowWow Wild Berry'

DFW Texas - Pow Wow loves partial shade in my part of Texas.

My bed has partial sun in the front of the bed, 4 hours of ...Read Moredirect sun mid day, dappled shade the rest of the day. In the direct, hot sun, the Pow Wow leaves burned. I transplanted it just inside the drip line of a row of Eleagnus that I trimmed into small trees, so it is in partial shade. Our alkaline, clay soil was amended with compost and sandy loam. It's full of blossoms that last a very long time. It's hard to find flowers that thrive in partial shade, but Pow Wow loves it. Other plants for partial shade are Amistad Salvia with violet purple spires, Miss Manners Obedient plant with white flowers that look like snapdragons, Our Lady of Guadalupe Rose that blooms prolifically and grey owl junipers.
In partial sun, I have sweet drift roses that are covered in flowers, white trailing lantana, dwarf balloon flowers, rockin' purple dianthus, other long blooming dianthus and cora vinca.
Hope this is helpful.

Hates the Texas heat. I have tried this plant 3 times with no luck. Will never buy this again. Takes a lot of care. Watering every...Read More day is too much. Every other day is too little. Just a pain to grow.

I planted five Echinacea varieties just this late spring (about six weeks ago). The list includes the Double Decker, Green Jewel, Double...Read More Scoop Bubblegum, Kim’s knee high and the Pow Wow. All have been well watered and in a good mix of well-drained soil receiving full sun with harsh afternoons. All are happy and healthy, but my best performers by far are the bubblegum and green jewel producing multiple blooms with no end in sight as I see buds way down the line. The bubblegum has a very unique shape as well as a beautiful color, the green jewel is interesting because there just are not that many green blooms around (other than some of my hydrangeas). Kim’s knee high also has multiple blooms, but I do not find them as color rich or as interesting as the others-they sort of sit on top of each other, which I do not like in a coneflower. The double decker is by far the most interesting. It has only three blooms and two buds, but has absolutely performed its duty-contrary to some other reviews I have read. It has doubled on one bloom so far and I can see the formation of another set of doubles on a second bloom. I was hopeful for the pow-wow to perform, but have not been yet impressed, although this may be my placement as it receives the brunt of the runoff from watering and the harshest amount of sun, but I will give it a shot for next season. As far as growth, so far the Kim’s knee high and pow wow have topped out at 10” in growth, the bubblegum and green jewel have their highest blooms at 13” and the double decker is standing tall at 19”-this is all at six weeks after planting happy plants from the nursery that started about three quarters the size they are now. I am so impressed with the green jewel and bubble gum that I will be adding a combination of five more along a short walkway we need to fill in-I would love to add the double decker in this space as well, but they would end up blocking the view of my beautiful stargazer lilies if they indeed reach their supposed height of 36-40”. Hope my review helps and happy gardening to all of you  Kristi in Kansas City

This is an improvement on the species in many ways: more compact, more floriferous, bright unfailing color. It is also a stable seed stra...Read Morein, meaning you are likely to get the same attributes from its seedlings. I try to not collect all the seed however, because it is an important Winter food source for finches and other small songbirds.