Plant Profile: Echinacea 'Tomato Soup' PP19427

Echinacea 'Tomato Soup' is a hybrid coneflower created from the yellow Echinacea paradoxa and the purple-pink Echinacea purpurea ‘Ruby Giant’. This cultivar showcases striking red blooms and features a robust, clumping growth habit.

It thrives in full sunlight, although it can also tolerate partial shade, and prefers soil that ranges from moist to dry and is of average quality. Similar to its parent species, it exhibits remarkable resilience to various conditions, including drought, arid soil, high temperatures, humidity, poor soil quality, rocky terrain, and even deer. Notably, it produces additional blooms without the need for deadheading, although regular deadheading can enhance its flowering performance.