Why Plant Hot Papaya Coneflower?
Bright red-orange, papaya colored blooms grace the garden in mid summer with the Hot Papaya Coneflower! Colorful drooping petals surround an orange-red pom-pom-like center. These fiery blooms have a sweet fragrance that will attract butterflies and other pollinators to your landscape while resisting those pesky deer! This one makes a long lasting cut flower and a good border addition, especially when planted in large numbers!
How to use Hot Papaya Coneflower in the landscape?
Hot Papaya Coneflowers demand a planting location front and center as their dramatic blooms will set fire to your summer landscape! A wonderful addition to a cut flower garden or as a perennial border, the Hot Papaya will bring the va-va-voom to your landscape all summer long!
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 4-9
How To Plant Hot Papaya Coneflower
The Hot Papaya Coneflower is a low maintenance stunner! It grows well in average soil, from dry to medium moisture, as long is it drains well. As it settles in, it will become drought, heat and humidity tolerant! Be sure to find it a home in full sun for the best showing, but it can handle part shade as well. Coneflowers love heat, so they're slow to emerge in spring, but be patient - they'll arrive soon enough!
How To Water
Water your new Coneflower as soon as it arrives! While drought tolerant when established, your perennial will need some assistance in the watering department the first year.
How To Fertilize
When it comes to fertilizing your Hot Papaya Coneflower, the best time to do so is in early spring as your Coneflowers are breaking dormancy. They only need to be fertilized once a year but be sure to use an all natural fertilizer like the Bower & Branch Elements Starter Plant Food - chemical fertilizers will burn your plants if over applied!
How To Prune
Deadheading spent flowers will keep plants looking their freshest, but the seedheads do provide winter interest, so leave them alone to enjoy four-season beauty. Cut old stems down before new growth appears in spring.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
