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Common name: Coneflower
Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ is a breathtaking new coneflower, with large glowing orange flowers on sturdy, upright stems. It's stunning color, big bold blossoms, bushy habit, and strong vigorous growth combine to make this one of the best new coneflowers we have ever tested.
Butterflies are attracted to the nectar rich flowers – providing an additional lovely show of colorful life in your garden – and small birds appreciate feasting on the seed heads late in the season.
The huge (4½ inches wide) blooms on Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ have 15 to 19 broad, thickly textured overlapping florets, surrounding a burnished, copper colored cone. They are borne on well-branched sturdy stems and produced in profusion from early or mid-summer (depending upon location) until early autumn. The flowers have a pleasant, spicy fragrance, and are remarkably fade resistant. The vibrancy and intensity of this unusual color is stunning. It positively beams warmth and excitement, bringing an exhilarating touch of tropical vitality to this American native genus.
Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ is an irresistible choice for mixed borders, foundation plantings, beds and borders, naturalized plantings, cutting gardens and containers. It is especially valuable in prominent spots, such as at the front of beds and mixed plantings. And when planted in bold, massed groupings it will absolutely set your landscape ablaze with sweeps of glowing color.
Great inside
Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ is also marvelous for cutting and bringing
indoors. Harvest them in the early morning, or late in the evening, and condition the freshly cut
stems by placing in water soon after cutting. In this way, you can expect them to last a week to
10 days.
‘Tiki Torch’ makes impressive arrangements, and are marvelous for brightening up many places within the home. Imagine how just a few stems can add a glowing welcome to visitors in your entrance ways and foyers; or a cozy ambience to living rooms, family rooms, window sills and mantelpieces.
The stout stems of ‘Tiki Torch’ make it easy to arrange. Even just a few, placed in a vase of water, will give a rich warming effect. And because each plant produces so many flowering stems, you will never miss a few snipped fresh from your garden.
Flower Color: Orange shades
Foliage Color: Green shades
Sun Tolerance: Full Sun
Preferred Soil Type: Well drained soil
USDA Plant Hardiness: Zone 4
Plant Height: 24–30”
Plant Spread: Approximately 24”
Growing Tips
Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ is actually pretty easy to grow in average soils.
All it needs is a sunny, well-drained site. And here's the best part: Once established it is
tolerant of drought, summer heat and humidity.
‘Tiki Torch’ does best in a sunny, open position, but it will also tolerate a little light shade. Keep in mind the plants will be a little taller, and more sparely foliaged, but they will still grow and flower satisfactory in lightly shaded conditions.
Regular deadheading will keep it flowering through the summer and well into the autumn.
Bred by Harini Korlipara (Terra Nova Nurseries – Canby, Oregon), this vigorous and robust hybrid is the result of a planned hybridization program involving a yellow flowering native species (Echinacea paradoxa) and a vigorous Echinacea purpurea selection (Echinacea ‘Ruby Giant’).
We have a limited supply on hand, making this the perfect time to snatch some up and plant them in your garden for enjoyment this summer, and many summers to come. This exciting new introduction – Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’ – is another good example of how Garden Splendor® plants bring you “the best of the tried and true, and the most promising of the exciting and new”. That's why Echinacea ‘Tiki Torch’, like our other plants, are known to be Plants Worth Remembering™.
Until next time, enjoy your gardening, its good for you, and for the environment.