Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Herbstsonne’

Tall coneflower with rich, golden-yellow flowers from late summer

Rudbeckia laciniata 'Herbstsonne'

Rudbeckia laciniata 'Herbstsonne', 2 litre container

Established plants in two-litre containers

Description

Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Herbstsonne’ (‘Autumn Sun’) is just a brilliant, strong robust plant for a sunny back of border spot. We love it because it’s super reliable and emerges in spring as a clump of lovely dense, strong, interestingly shaped foliage that slowly gains height and mass through the growing season. Once mid-summer has past, the roses have quietened down and other early and mid season flowers have had their peak this Rudbeckia takes on another life, sending up tall strong budding stems that emerge in the back end of summer as large (up to 10cm across), rich golden-yellow daisy-like flowers with pale-green centres and slightly drooping petals. The flowering goes on for ages – right through the back end of summer and well into autumn. It’s also great for us in the west country as it stands up really well to the autumn rains and rarely needs staking, despite its height. It really keeps that sense of summer going, and for that it’s very welcome.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in two-litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of 120-180cm or so (4 to 6 feet), depending on the richness of the soil, with a spread of a little more than half that.

Growing Advice

Rudbeckias are prairie plants, and as such used to growing in sunny open spaces exposed to mid-summer sun and wind. It will thrive the most where you can replicate these conditions, and will certainly grow most robustly in full sun. However we’ve also grown ours in part-shaded locations and they have done well and certainly flowered strongly, though if grown in part-shade in rich soil the plant might need a little staking to see it at its best, particularly if autumn rains set in. That said, if it does flop over it does so quite gracefully in our experience, and there is something equally joyous about a tall plant mingling its flowers in amongst the lower growing plants around it.

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