One of our favourite garden flowers is the perennial rudbeckia (Rudbeckia fulgida), also known as the coneflower or Black-eyed Susan. They grow and spead to a height and width of 0.5m to 1m, and have large yellow flowers with dark, almost black, centres. What endears them to us is the ease with which they can be grown and controlled, the impact they have, and the fact that they flower for such a long time - from towards the end of summer through most of autumn. And they do it year after year with little maintenance other than cutting back at the end of the season.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
