SEED SOWING ADVICE: QUICK & EASY Suitable for beginners and gardening with kids Providing you leave some flower heads to go to seed each year of course. So even though each plant only lasts for two years, it reliably self sows a new crop of babies and a procession of flowers each year. Rudbeckia hirta is a self sowing biennial. High and absolutely covered with flowers x 4c5m. Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colours’ forms a strikingly coloured, long blooming, and low maintenance clump.Ħ0cm. It is ridiculously easy to grow in the garden, and unbelievably quick and easy to raise from seed. So Rudbeckia hirta is valued as a water-wise plant, and makes a spectacular addition to gardens where water is rationed, or in feature pots. Plant Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colours’ in Sun to Part Shade.Īnd obligingly it also tolerates a wide range of soils, including sandy or clay. Rabbit & Deer resistantĮven rabbits and deer leave it low on their list of menu choices. While fortunately the plant is largely untroubled by harmful pests and diseases. Our friends the bees, native birds, and other useful pollinators flock to the flowers. So it is always tidy, and covered with bloom all season. It also makes a spectacular feature pot, because of the constant, abundant long blooming, and neat compact growth. Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colours’ is also a superb floristry flower when cut for a vase.Īs well as a star in the garden with it’s velvety sizzling colours, and exceptionally long flowering season. While hairy deep-green, broad leaves make a beautiful colour contrast (if you can see the foliage between the flowers).įlowers begin in early summer, and continue until the first frost of winter. The large daisies are abundant all over summer and autumn.Īnd borne in such profusion that the bushy plant is covered in colour, and large flowers jostling together for months. across, but absolutely covering a compact bush of foliage. Stunning colours & HUGE bloomsĪnd the flowers are also stunningly large – up to 12cm.
With striking petals that shade from rust, through velvet red, to bronze, and finally gold tips.Īnd prominent mahogany central cones. Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colours’ has HUGE flowers.
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