Echinacea Delicious Candy Epimedium squid-shaped rosette of rough green

squid-shaped rosette of rough green leaves is highlighted by a central muted chartreuse-yellow stripe down the middle of each leaf

but is amazingly drought-tolerant

heavily speckled with silver

all atop 3' tall stalks

While flowering-size corms are miniscule compared to normal gladiolus

Echinacea Delicious Candy Epimedium squid-shaped rosette of rough green(aka: Echinacea Noortdeli) Echinacea 'Delicious Candy' comes from our friend, Dutch plant breeder Marco van Noort, who touts his new coneflower as the best he's seen in the last half decade. Based on our trials, we concur. In the garden, it forms a small, compact clump, topped, starting for us in mid June (NC), with rigidly upright 18" tall stalks, ending in brilliant magenta flowers. Each flower is composed of a pompom like central cone atop a row of