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Sunday 27 February 2011

Good plant #7 - Rudbeckia Triloba 'Brown-eyed Susan'


This is a late but profusely flowering summer/ autumn perennial beauty - yellow flowers with a brown centre.  It is perfect in a prairie garden mixed in with large ornamental grasses or as a drift in any warm coloured herbaceous border.  One of its great virtues is that it flowers from seed (with an early sowing indoors) in it's first year - which is unusal for for flowering perennials. Seems to tolerate most soil conditions but does best in moister conditions.

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