As a comment about Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'Red Knee High'), Newyorkrita wrote:

An impoved version of the older Kims Knee High coneflowers Red Knee High has deeper colored more vivid flowers but the same shorter plant habit. Actually I learned that Red Knee High is a sport of Kims Knee High. While I have both in my garden and like them both I do prefer the more vivid coloring of Red Knee High.

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Nov 25, 2011 1:44 PM CST
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Name: Susan
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Do you have your Red Knee High in part shade? Mine is in full sun and they faded. I was disappointed.
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Nov 25, 2011 2:28 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
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The Red Knee High is really a very deep vidid color as it starts to flower. Given time the flowers do fade some and at the very end I would say both Red Knee High and Kims Knee High end up the same color.
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Nov 25, 2011 4:46 PM CST
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Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
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Ok, That fine, I was just wondering if you thought it might be getting too much sun. But if they all fade then it's just normal right? Blinking
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Nov 25, 2011 5:28 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
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Sounds normal to me.
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Nov 25, 2011 5:37 PM CST
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Name: Susan
Virginia (Zone 8a)
God is the only thing that matters.
I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Level 1 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Hibiscus Dragonflies Daylilies
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29
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