Re: rudbeckia goldsturm

In a message dated 9/27/00 8:11:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:

<< I leave mine alone as well.  The birds spend a lot of time picking them 
over 
 for food, as they do the purple coneflower. They will reseed, and most of 
 the young plants will be inferior to the parents, >>

Bob,

Are you sure you have started with the true cultivar "Goldsturm'?   I have 
several large patches of this plant and have never seen a seedling.  The 
vegetatively propagated 'Goldsturm' does not produce fertile seed according 
to the catalogs.  All of the other rudbeckias seed themselves here but not 
'Goldsturm'.   I know there is a difference of opinion on what is the true 
plant however the 'Goldsturm' supplied by reputable nurseries will be 
absolutely identical, plant for plant.  They can be mutiplied by division 
rather quickly but are always the same plant.   Goldsturm requires more water 
than most rudbeckias to do it's best.  Ruth Clausen on perennials says that 
what is offered as Goldsturm "strain" does not have the quality and 
uniformity of the the true selection.  I have tried it both ways and the 
properly labelled plant is a superior garden plant.

Claire Peplowski
NYS zone 4 


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