Julia Coneflower is a moderate growing perennial plant that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 3A through 8B. It matures to an average height of 1 foot to 2 feet and an average width of 1 foot to 2 feet, depending on climate and other environmental factors. It prefers growing in a location that provides full sun, morning sun with afternoon shade or morning shade with afternoon sun and grows best when planted in loam, clay or silt soil that is well drained. In the summer and fall Julia Coneflower produces orange flowers. The foliage is dark green in color. It attracts butterflies, visual attention and songbirds / birds and is resistant to deer and heat. If you like fragrance, Julia Coneflower has fragrant flowers.

Julia Coneflower can be useful in the landscape along woodland borders, in mass plantings, in foundation plantings, in containers or planters, as a border or edger, around decks, swimming pools, and other outdoor living areas, as an accent, in landscape beds or islands or in small groupings and also in cottage gardens, butterfly gardens or perennial gardens.

More About Julia Orange Coneflower...

Julia Coneflower is noted for its fragrant, daisy-like, brilliant orange flowers with brown cone-like centers. The beautiful flowers sit atop stems that rise above the elegant dark green foliage throughout summer and early fall. The dead flower heads will remain erect well into winter often being visited by birds that feed on the seeds.

Details

USDA Zones: 3A-8
Height: 1-2'
Width:  1-2'
Spacing:  2-3'
Sun:  Full or Half Sun
Soil:  Well Drained Clay, Loam or Silt
Water Needs:  Average to low
Flower Color:  Brilliant Orange, Brown Cone-like Cnter
Bloom Period:  Summer, Early Fall
Foliage:  Dark Green
Fragrance:  Fragrant Flowers 
Tolerances / Resistances:  Heat, Drought, Deer
Attracts:  Butterflies, Birds,Visual Attention
Uses & Styles:  Borders, Background, Butterfly Gardens, Containers and Planters, Cottage Gardens, Landscape Beds, Outdoor Living Areas, Small Groups, Woodland Border Gardens, Perennial Beds, and Mass Planting

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