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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: saddad on September 02, 2009, 19:20:32

Title: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on September 02, 2009, 19:20:32

By the Rhubarb...
 (http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/DSCN2951.jpg)
 :)

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Suzanne on September 02, 2009, 20:17:20

Looks lovely  :)

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on September 02, 2009, 20:41:55

That purple weed gets everywhere though!  :-[

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: grannyjanny on September 02, 2009, 20:47:29

Purple weed indeed. How very dare you :o :o :o.

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Borlotti on September 02, 2009, 20:49:15

All ready for Sunday, Rudbekia flowering well, what is happening on Sunday, I have forgotten, old age.

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on September 03, 2009, 16:00:25

I really don't like that verbena... it seeds everywhere...  ::)

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: amphibian on September 03, 2009, 22:51:32

Quote from: saddad on September 02, 2009, 20:41:55

That purple weed gets everywhere though!  :-[

Is this a subtle reference to the cannabis thread.

Along with the thread 'Doing away with the grass'  ;D

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on September 03, 2009, 22:57:12

 ;D

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: shirlton on September 04, 2009, 07:59:48

The bees love it though and it is so easy to pull up if you don't like it

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on September 04, 2009, 08:11:51

If you are wearing gloves... those square stems can give you a nasty cut... trust me..  ;D

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Jitterbug on September 17, 2009, 22:43:02

What a wonderful show.   Gnash... Gnash.... I have tried growing Rudbekia over a number of years without success. I am now going to just give up...

Jitterbug

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Garden Manager on September 20, 2009, 10:50:55

Lovely. Rudbekias are one of my favorite late summer flowers. They are nice and bright and colourful and last for ages too.

The purple weed looks like verbena bonariensis. Wouldnt call it a weed. Used to have lots of it but lost most of it last winter.

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: lewic on September 29, 2009, 19:06:54

Lovely! Planted two Rudbekias last year and both died, not sure what I did wrong (poss due to being planted in a shady spot)

Thanks Garden Assistant I have been trying to find out what that purple weed was for ages!

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on October 01, 2009, 14:45:57

It's still a weed though...
I have some annula rudbekia.. "Cherry Brandy" in full flower.. I'll get a pic..  :)

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: littleredhen on October 02, 2009, 10:45:05

A weed!  How very dare you!  :o. Verbena bonariensis is one of my favourite plants and it does look great with the rudbeckia. 

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Biscombe on October 02, 2009, 10:51:17

They look fab, I'll be growing some next year!
Do they make good cut flowers Saddad? Do you grow from cuttings or seeds?

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on October 02, 2009, 15:15:07

The verbena self seed... the Rudbekia was a bought plant...  :)

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: Digitalis on October 03, 2009, 16:36:05

I've just planted two small (non-flowered) rudbeckia Goldsturm. Do I need to cut them down to ground level for the winter?

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on October 03, 2009, 17:57:28

I don't...  :-\

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: flossy on October 03, 2009, 18:05:39

  I sowed some Rudbekia seeds last Spring--  ashamed to say they stayed in thier seed tray

  looking sad and neglected,  got to them in the end and now have 8 pots of plants, all

  looking good.

  They are still out in the elements, do I leave them there, or do I need to fleece at all,

  --  they are in 4"   pots,

  With thanks,

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: saddad on October 03, 2009, 18:11:03

Shouldn't need it... unless it gets really cold and there is a chance of the pots freezing solid while waterlogged...  :-\

Title: Re: Rudbekia on the top lottie
Post by: flossy on October 03, 2009, 18:19:32

  Many thanks saddad, will tuck them round a corner with an over hang, should be out

  of the worst weather , and will watch the watering,   ;)