Should I fertilise my coneflowers regularly?

Answer 1

dear prvbu v, yes you should fertilize you coneflowers, I grow for a nursery that has patented several new varieties of Echinacea, use to ther were only purple[which looks more like dark pink] and white, now we can grow beautiful megentas, golden yellow, bright orange,citron yellow, and red and we are keep introducing different colors all the time. We grow them from 1st the lab, then the mist house, to the 4" pot, to the 1gallon pot and yes we do feed them with a timed-released fertilizer as well as liquid feed from the hose. We have grown hundreds of thousands of these plants and also mail oreder them all over the world, we have never suggested not to fertilize them, this is silly. I live in Georgia and the echinacea is considered a native plant here! Point is you can plant any flower and not fertilize it and it will grow, but when you feed it, it will thrive and give you alot of foliage and flowers, do you want a so, so flower or a beautiful flower. You would'nt starve an animal or a human, plants need food too!!!! Coneflowers are noted for their flowers not the foliage, so try a 10-20-10. or something along this line, middle number being the highest. HAPPY GROWING!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Echinacea, commonly known as coneflower, is a native prairie plant that is easy to grow. Coneflowers seed naturally and require little care. They don´t need fertilizing; this can actually stop coneflowers from blooming, and causes weak spindly growth. These are one of the rare plants that can handle heavy clay soil, but coneflowers will also grow happily in normal garden soil, as well.