Fill your flowerbeds with the cosy warm glow of Echinacea 'Mellow Yellows'. This is the kind of yellow which you can combine with so many colours with causing a clash. The slight apricot tinge is so attractive in both mixed-colour planting schemes or mellowly chilling among wafting ornamental grasses. Bee-magnet Echinacea 'Mellow Yellows' is essential in a wildlife garden. This variety features easy-access nectar in a neat central cone, surrounded by a simple ray of pale yellow petals which make the perfect landing pad for basking butterflies.

Golden tones like this look magical on balmy summer evenings, pair Echinacea 'Mellow Yellows' with pink echinaceas, monardas or dahlias for contrast or turn up the heat by planting with red-orange flowers like Helenium. Prairie style planting is really popular right now. Using low-maintenance perennials like Echinacea purpurea 'Mellow Yellows' which return every year, you can create a truly sensational planting scheme which returns for a repeat show which establishes and improves every year.