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Coneflower - Now Cheesier
Coneflower - Now Cheesier Echinacea Now Cheesier (Coneflower), Echinacea 'Now Cheesier', offers delicious cheddar cheese-colored deep golden yellow blooms that will lighten slightly after weeks of summer heat. New and improved, this coneflower has great vigor and better branching than many others. Great for sunny locations, this fragrant Echinacea will brighten up your garden with its stunning shade of bright yellow and sweetly scented blooms. ‘Now Cheesier’ is a long lasting flower that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and is great in cut flower arrangements! Divide clumps when they become overcrowded (about every 4 years. ‘Now Cheesier’ usually reblooms without deadheading, but if spent flowers are removed, this procedure will encourage continued beautiful blooms and improves general appearance. Highly fragrant, this coneflower keeps coming all summer on tall plants with excellent branching. This plant is deer resistant. If you leave some spent blooms on the plants in fall their seeds provide winter food for birds. You can enjoy the dried seed heads as well, because they will provide architectural interest in the winter. ‘Now Cheesier’ is an outstanding flower with an intense golden-yellow color. It will bring a brilliant display to a sunny location! * Fragrant * Hardy * Long lasting blooms
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