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Rubus odoratus Flowering raspberry Z 2-8
Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers all summer
Purple-pink saucer shaped flowers from June to October. Rarely seen shrub.
Size: 7-8' x 8' spreading
Care: Sun to shade in moist well-drained soil. Slightly acidic.
Native: Maine to Michigan, south to Illinois, Tennessee, east to North Carolina and all places in between
Wildlife Value: Immune to walnut toxins.For sale in an English catalog in 1730. William Robinson, father of the mixed perennial garden, praised the flowering raspberry as bearing “large clusters of rich purple flowers. Bearing scented leaves, the leaves and not the flowers being fragrant.”
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Rudbeckia fulgida Black eyed susan Z 4-9
The classic Black-eyed susan, 3" wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July-October
The classic Black-eyed susan, 3″ wide yellow daisies with a dark center from July – October
Size: 30" x 18"
Care: full sun to part shade in moist well-drained to well-drained soil
Native: Southeastern U.S.
Wildlife Value: A great number of bees, flies and beetles collect pollen or drink nectar from this RudbeckiaThis species fulgida was introduced to England in 1760 and named in William Aition’s Hortus Kewensis, V. 3 p. 251 (1789). Cherokee ate the stems and leaves and also used this species to remedy earaches, sores, flux, venereal disease, snakebites, dropsy, and swelling. Iroquois healed the heart and rid children of worms with this, Potawatomi make a brown dye with this.
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Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Herbstsonne’ Rudbeckia nitida ‘Herbstsonne’ syn. Rudbeckia ‘Autumn Sun’ Z 5-10
Exceptionally large & drooping petals, with a tall, central cone of green, blooms July to September.
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Exceptionally large & drooping petals, with a tall, central cone of green, blooms July to September.
Size: 4-7’ x 2-3’
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: provides butterfly nectar and seeds food for birds
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritIt’s “an old selection.”
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Rudbeckia laciniata var. hortensia Golden Glow Z 3-9
"Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting," Sanders 1913. July-August blooms on these imposing double daisies.
“Rich, yellow double flowers borne in autumn, excellent for cutting,” Sanders 1913. July-August blooms on these imposing double daisies.
Size: 5-7' x 12" and spreading
Care: full sun, moist well-drained to well-drained soil, drought tolerant & immune to Walnut toxins.Serendipitous discovery in a group of seedlings in 1894. Said to be “the most popular hardy perennial introduced during the last 25 years,” April, 1905, The Garden magazine. Recommended by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908. Beth in New Mexico advised that her alpaca named Ricardo finds them delicious.
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Rudbeckia maxima Great coneflower Z 4-9
Magnificent wildflower with huge paddle-shaped leaves of blue-grey-green and tall stalks of finch-gold petals
Magnificent wildflower with huge paddle-shaped leaves of blue-grey-green and tall stalks of finch-gold petals encircling central cones 4-5″ tall.
Size: 5-6' x 2'
Care: Sun in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: OK, AK, TX & LA
Wildlife Value: Nectar source for larvae of painted Lady butterfly & for large Wood nymph butterfly.Rudbeckia was named by Linnaeus for his University of Upsala professor, Olaf Rudbeck. Rudbeck made the surprising claim “that the Paradise of Scripture was situated somewhere in Sweden.” C.F. Leyel. This species collected by Englishman Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) in Oklahoma Territory near the Red River in 1816. Nuttall searched much of the No. American continent from New England west to Oregon, the South, Midwest, the Plains, S.E., California & Hawaii, finding thousands of new plants.
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Rudbeckia subtomentosa ‘Henry Eilers’ Z 4-8
These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching stems forming clumps of sun yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown dome of disc flowers. But instead of flat petals, the petals are rolled into narrow tubes, looking like many spokes of a wheel blooming from mid-summer into fall.
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These Rudbeckias tower above basal leaves on rigid, branching stems forming clumps of sun yellow petaled flowers surrounding a raised, brown dome of disc flowers. But instead of flat petals, the petals are rolled into narrow tubes, looking like many spokes of a wheel blooming from mid-summer into fall.
Size: 3-5’ x 1-2’
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: attracts butterflies, deer resistantHenry Eilers discovered this cultivar while scouting a southern Illinois prairie. Here’s his story.
Henry Eilers, born in 1934, long-time nurseryman, had introduced selections of different ornamental plants that he found growing at his nursery. But Rudbeckia subtomentosa ‘Henry Eilers’ is different. Henry worked tirelessly for decades to preserve Illinois plants and their diversity. In the early 1980’s while scouting a prairie remnant near Witt in Montgomery County IL he spied a small clump of uncommon Black-eyed susan. Instead of the usual broad, flat petals, this one has narrow, quilled petals. He dug it and replanted it at his nursery where it grew on. It still grows in his wildflower garden. He decided to name it Rudbeckia ‘Montgomery County.’ In the 1990’s Henry took it and other native wildflowers to a native plant sale at the Shaw Arboretum, Missouri Botanic Garden. He and another nurseryman, Larry Lowman exchanged a few plants, one being this Rudbeckia. Several years later he found it for sale in the Plant Delight’s Nursery catalog, renamed Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers.’ Over time the plant appeared in gardening magazines and mail order catalogs. It now grows in the entrance planting at the National Botanic Garden in Washington, at the Missouri Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A nurseryman from the Check Republic told Henry he had been growing it! -
Rudbeckia subtomentosa Sweet coneflower Z 4-8
Fragrant yellow daisies with purplish cones, July- October
Fragrant yellow daisies with purplish cones, July- October
Size: 4-5' x 1-2'
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: East US, Wisconsin native.
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfleisRudbeckia was named by Linnaeus for his University of Upsala professor, Olaf Rudbeck. Rudbeck made the surprising claim “that the Paradise of Scripture was situated somewhere in Sweden.” C.F. Level. This species described in 1815. May have been collected by English planthunter John Bradbury (1768-1823).
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Rudbeckia triloba Branched coneflower, Brown eyed susan Z 3-9
Multitudes of small sunny daisies with brown centers from July to October, as cheery as they come.
Multitudes of small sunny daisies with brown centers from July to October, as cheery as they come.
Size: 3-4' x 2-3'
Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
Native: most of North America, Wisconsin native
Wildlife Value: Numerous bees, some flies, a few wasps and butterflies feed on the nectar and pollen. One bee feeds only on Rudbeckias and Ratibida flowers.
Awards: Georgia Gold Medal winner. England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.Rudbeckia was named by Linnaeus for his University of Upsala professor and founder of the Uppsala botanic Garden, and his son, University of Uppsala professor named Olaf Rudbeck. This species collected in Colonial Virginia in 1600’s.
