You will love this big-flowered, beautiful orange Echinacea. It's an exciting new plant because the color is highly unusual for Echinacea and the flower power is just extraordinary. The 3 1/2-inch blooms begin in early summer and continue well into fall, held on super-strong stems that last a week or more in the vase. The honey-rose scented flowers have long, crowded petals of golden-orange held straight out around a giant central deep orange-brown cone.

Big Sky Sunset has broader petals, more vigorous growth, and better branching than older coneflower varieties. It reaches up to 3 feet high and spreads up to 2 feet wide, and you will find it covered with blooms for months on end. This is a "cut-and-come-again" variety, so the faster you cut or deadhead the flowers, the quicker new buds spring up to take their place. But it's also a fine plant for an open or natural setting, and repays neglect with season after season. This is the perfect big-flowered orange variety to go with the yellow-flowering Big Sky Sunrise.