After a decade of breeding, we are excited to introduce the Echinacea Big Sky™ Series. The colors in this series are found in nature's most impressive color palette. Your business will come alive with the colors from warm, inviting sunrises and mesmerizing sunsets with the Big Sky Series of Echinacea.

These new echinaceas are the first in the Big Sky™ series that consists of crosses between E. purpurea and E. paradoxa. The new hybrids have the dominant traits of E. purpurea with great vigor, prolific blooms, fuller, rounder leaves and wider, overlapping flower petals.

ItSaul Plants has many more exciting Echinacea introductions in the works. 'Twilight' PPAF will complete the Big Sky series. 'Twilight' has rose red blooms infused with burnt orange and will be available to propagators in winter 2004. Stay tuned.

General Characteristics of ItSaul Plants Echinacea Breeding:

• New colors and bi-colors: Some have a totally unique color pattern that starts one color and transitions to another.
• Height: Shorter types about 12 inches. Taller selections tower up to 4 feet.
• Fragrance: Each new hybrid is uniquely fragrant.
• Petals: Apetalous and smaller petals in addition to selections with broad petals.
• Stems: All selections have sturdy stems.

Call (888) 448-7285 for availability.