Re: Rudbeckia Indian Summer

In a message dated 7/11/02 12:05:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:

<< ===>Not for me so far, Donna. I had three plants, two survived. They're 
 bigger than they were last year (my first year with them), but haven't 
spread 
 or seeded anywhere. >>

Sometimes we gardeners are too tidy with these plants.  If you leave them 
alone until after a freeze, you will get seedlings.  The flower must mature 
and dry completely which takes a long time on a Rudbeckia.  Also don't cut 
too many for the house.  The seedlings emerge after it gets hot so you do not 
have flowers the first year from self-sown seedlings.  You have big beautiful 
plants the second year.  I write from a cold zone so the seedlings may arrive 
sooner in the south.  Verena bonariensis is now about for or five inches tall 
here from self sown seeds.  If I purchased a plant it would be close to 
blooming.  They also need heat to germinate.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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