5 Pink Echinaceas for a Flowering Garden in Summer

Echinacea purpurea 'Pica Bella', a bright and cheerful flower

Echinacea purpurea ‘Pica Bella’ brings a lot of cheer to a garden with its bright pink flowers featuring a prominent orange centre. The colourful daisies appear from July to September. This is a compact echinacea that reaches a height of 50 cm with a spread of 35 cm. Floriferous and very resilient, this perennial plant adapts to challenging growing conditions. It can tolerate intense heat, drought, and occasional moisture.

It will easily integrate into a border alongside purple asters such as Aster alpinus ‘Goliath’, white daisies like the Shasta daisy, and yellow yarrow such as yarrow ‘Coronation Gold’. Adding grasses like Stipa tenuifolia lightens the border and gives it an even more natural look.

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' for playing with contrasts

The Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ is a tall flower that reaches 1 metre in height. On its upright, sturdy stems, large solitary pink flowers appear from July to September. It is distinguished by its exceptionally sized heads, formed of lilac-pink ligules with a hint of red and a prominent brown-orange centre. Floriferous, this perennial plant produces perfect flowers for creating a bouquet.

With its great height, Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ is ideal at the back of a border, accompanied by other pink or orange flowers to provide contrast. To attract the eye, one can play with the variety of flower shapes. The large single daisies of Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ can be complemented by the orange daylilies ‘Margaret Perry’, as well as the carmine-red flowers of the oleander Nerium oleander ‘Red Single’.

Echinacea pallida for Creating a Wild Garden

Echinacea pallida is a wild species with flowers composed of fine, long, pale pink petals and a centre of brown-orange stamens. It makes a stunning addition to a naturalistic garden. Supported by sturdy stems 80 cm tall, the flowers bloom from July to September. To encourage more abundant flowering, faded flowers can be removed as with all echinaceas. Easy to grow and resilient, Echinacea pallida thrives in sunny, well-drained, stony, or even calcareous soils.

If you love wild and natural gardens, Echinacea pallida is ideal. You can pair it with Gaura lindheimeri ‘Snowstorm’, which, like it, enjoys sunny exposure, as well as with Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Herbstzauber’ or Chinese fountain grass, to create an airy effect of grace and lightness that sways with the wind.

Echinacea 'Butterfly Kisses', a lovely pink pompom

Echinacea ‘Butterfly Kisses’ is a charming, very double, and frilly pink pom-pom flower. Floriferous and robust, this perennial plant is well-ramified from the base and takes on a compact habit of 45 cm high and 40 cm wide. From July to September, it produces flowers with a prominent, bristly centre of a strong pink around the periphery, where tiny orange flowers gradually appear, turning bronze or brown over time. Surrounding this complex central cone is a collar of ligulate petals in a fresh and soft pink, almost horizontally arranged.

Echinacea ‘Butterfly Kisses’ fits beautifully in the foreground of borders or in beds. It pairs nicely with blue thistles Echinops sphaerocephalus, Miss Jekyll Blue Nigella, and Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’.

Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction', the beauty of magenta pink

The Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’ features the uniqueness of flowers with bright magenta petals, contrasting with its bristly orange-red centre. It blooms from July to September. This perennial reaches a height of 70 cm and offers a dense tuft 30 cm wide. It thrives in sunny locations, in fertile, loose, deep, and well-drained soil. During summer, it is sensitive to lack of water, so it is advisable to add mulch at the base from May onwards.

In a border, Echinacea ‘Fatal Attraction’ can be accompanied by other echinaceas such as Echinacea purpurea ‘Virgin’ and paired with lupins as well as grasses like stipas.

For further reading

You can consult:

• our complete guide on planting and maintaining Echinaceas
• as well as our entire range of Echinaceas.