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- Subject: [gwl-g] Long lasting cut flower black-eyed susan
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 13:54:00 EST
Before the first big frost on or around October 24 I cut some black-eyed
susans that were still looking fresh in the vase at Christmas.
On December 10 (well after frosts but before the first big snow) I cut two
more and one is still looking good today Jan 22 (blizzard day - 2+ feet of
snow
and still raging).
I don't know what it is because the plants seeded themselves into my
community vegetable garden in Boston and I left them alone out of curiosity.
My guess
is Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii or R.f. Goldsturm. One is 1.5 feet high, the
other is 2 feet. Both have a big cluster of large basal leaves, but I did not
pay enough attention to the leaves before to match it to Armitage's
description in Herbaceous Perennial Plants, and now they are covered with
snow.
I've never had such long lasting flowers before. I put no preservatives in
the water, and only changed the water once or twice. The various rudbeckias I
collect in Maine haven't lasted like this one - 2 months for the ones cut
before
frost, and 1.5 months for the ones cut after frost.
Is it typical or unusual to have cut flowers of rudbeckia last this long?
Sally
Sally Williams
Editor, Garden Literature Index
EBSCO Publishing
Ipswich MA
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[gwl-g] Long lasting cut flower black-eyed susan,
GardenLit, 01/23/2005
- Re: [gwl-g] Long lasting cut flower black-eyed susan, Carol Matthews, 01/24/2005
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