🌸 Echinacea Purpurea (Purple Coneflower) Seeds by Seattle Seed Company
Echinacea purpurea is one of those plants that earns its place in the garden twice over — first as a stunning, long-blooming perennial, and then as a time-honoured medicinal herb. Whether you're planting a cottage garden, growing cut flowers, or looking for a natural immune-supporting plant, this native wildflower delivers season after season. It also makes a thoughtful, meaningful gift for gardeners and wellness-minded friends alike.
🌿 Features
- 🌸 Distinctive cone-shaped blooms: Rich purple daisy-like flowers with a raised central cone — a classic, recognisable look that draws pollinators all summer long.
- ☀️ Hardy perennial: Returns year after year with minimal fuss. Thrives in full sun to part shade and well-drained, fertile soil.
- ✂️ Versatile use: Perfect as a cut flower, dried flower, border plant, cottage garden feature, or medicinal herb.
- 🌱 Flexible sowing options: Direct sow in autumn for mid-summer blooms, or sow as soon as soil is workable for late-summer colour. Can also be started indoors 8–10 weeks before your last frost date.
- 🌾 Easy seed saving: Harvest seeds once flowers are fully open to grow your own supply year after year.
- 📦 From Seattle Seed Company: A locally rooted Washington seed company committed to quality, sustainable growing.
💚 Benefits
- 🌺 Beautifies your outdoor space: Adds bold, natural colour to beds, borders and wildflower-style gardens from mid to late summer.
- 🐝 Supports pollinators: A favourite of bees and butterflies, helping your whole garden thrive.
- 🛡️ Immune-supporting herb: Echinacea has long been used as a natural remedy, particularly during cold and flu season. It's known to stimulate immune cell activity, helping your body fight bacteria, viruses and infection more effectively — without the side effects associated with antibiotics.*
- 🩹 More than just immune support: Traditionally used to promote wound healing, reduce inflammation in arthritis, and support skin health.
- 🎁 A gift worth giving: Whether for a keen gardener, a wellness enthusiast, or someone who loves growing their own herbs, Echinacea purpurea seeds are a purposeful, eco-conscious gift under $20.
🌱 How to Grow
- Step 1 – Choose your timing: Direct sow outdoors in autumn for mid-summer blooms the following year, or in early spring (as soon as soil can be worked) for late-summer colour.
- Step 2 – Start indoors (optional): Sow seeds indoors 8–10 weeks before your intended planting date for an earlier head start.
- Step 3 – Pick the right spot: Plant in full sun to part shade in fertile, well-drained soil.
- Step 4 – Harvest seeds: Collect seeds from flowers once they are fully open to save for the following season.
📋 Product Specifications
- 🌿 Plant type: Hardy perennial
- 🌸 Common name: Purple Coneflower
- ☀️ Sun requirement: Full sun to part shade
- 🌱 Soil: Fertile, well-drained
- 📅 Bloom time: Mid to late summer
- 🏡 Best uses: Cut flowers, dried flowers, beds, cottage gardens, medicinal herb gardens
- 📍 Origin: Seattle Seed Company, Washington
- 💲 Price: Under $20
*Medicinal herb information sourced from herbwisdom.com. Echinacea should be used as part of a balanced approach to wellness. Consult a healthcare professional before use if you have a medical condition.
🛒 Add Echinacea Purpurea seeds to your cart today — and bring a plant that's as beautiful as it is beneficial into your garden this season.