Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan) – 10″ Patio Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Vivid Deep Red shades with Dark Almost Black cone

Flower Size: 3-4″

Flowering Period:  Summer to Frost

Flower Type:  Single, Daisy

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Birds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A red Black-eyed Susan? Yep!..meet ‘Cherry Brandy’, the first ever red flowering Rudbeckia. From Summer to frost this dazzling selection features abundant, 3 to 4 inch coneflowers in shades of vivid deep red with a dark chocolate brown/almost black center cone. Deadheading will encourage prolific blooming but remember in fall to leave some of the last flowers on the plant so their seeds can provide winter food for birds. Excellent for cut flowers throughout the summer and fall!

Growing 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 1 to 1.5 feet wide, the Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or in groupings or mass plantings in sunny landscape or woodland borders and perennial gardens. Its low and mounding form lends well for use as a border along paths and walkways. A fine addition to butterfly, cut flower, cottage and red color theme gardens.

The Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia is very easy to grow in most any well-drained but moist soil in full to mostly sun. Provide at least 6 hours of direct sun for best flowering. As with many other perennial plants, constantly soggy or wet soils are problematic. Heavy, dense clay soils should be amended with organic matter to improve drainage.