Enjoy this blockbuster in your sunny garden.īloom Start to End:Late Spring – Early FallĪdditional Characteristics:Bird Lovers, Easy Care Plants, Flower Everything about it is pleasing, from its ease of culture to its ever-distinctive colors to its over-the-top flower size. Be sure to space them at least 16 inches apart, however-gloriosa daisy needs good air circulation to perform at its best.Autumn Colors Rudbeckia is the winner of the Fleuroselect Quality Mark, Europes highest award for flowering ornamentals from seed. Start the Autumn Colors Rudbeckia seeds indoors or out, setting young plants in full sun and any well-drained soil. And few annuals are easier to grow than native American Rudbeckia. Or, to really show them off, consider a large planting in front of a wall of ornamental grass such as Millet Jester or Fountain Grass.These strong-stemmed blooms are long-lasting in the vase, so if you have a cutting garden, be sure to grow a few Autumn Colors Rudbeckia just for indoor arrangements. Autumn Colors Rudbeckia does well in the back of the border, where their size makes them stand out, or dotted among other summer bloomers in the middle of a mixed planting. A few have burgundy rings toward the base of the petals. Some have bronze petals, others sunny yellow, still others rich gold. All have a maroon to burgundy center, but beyond that, all bets are off. Thats why Autumn Colors Rudbeckia is all the more surprising to see humongous blooms opening atop the plant from late spring into early fall. (But why would you ever want a small planting of this showstopper? Break out the tiller and let Autumn Colors Rudbeckia march through your garden.)Autumn Colors Rudbeckia is an upright, fairly compact plant, just 20 to 24 inches tall and 12 to 15 inches wide. And as if that werent exciting enough, each bloom is uniquely ringed and petalled, giving you a varied bouquet from even a small planting. Its not enough to say that Autumn Colors Rudbeckia has the largest blooms ever grown on a gloriosa daisy-these flowers are more than double the size of traditional varieties, ranging from 5 to a full 7 inches across. Award-winning size, colors, and garden performanceįleuroselect Novelty Award Winner 2000If these gigantic blooms were facing forward instead of held straight up, youd think they were sunflowers, so massive are they.
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