A mix of annual composite flowers are now coming into bloom in my garden. Featured today are a mix of Gloriosa Rudbeckias, including ‘Cherry Brandy’ and some creamy Zinnia elegans. Foliage is Coleus (Plectranthus) and Rhododendron leaves.
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts the weekly garden meme In A Vase On Monday, featuring flowers from our gardens. Click the link to join or see what others are sharing this week.
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Glorious Gloriosa!
Indeed, they are fun. Thanks, Tony.
A lovely combination!
Thank you, Sandy! 🙂
Unusually beautiful Eliza.
Thank you, Cindy. 💕
Lovely.
Thank you, Alys. 🙂
July is daisy time. What a lovely selection you have. I love the mahogany and yellow colour scheme.
Thank you, Liz. I like the ‘surprise’ colours these self-sowers present every year. One never knows if the seedlings one chooses will be varied or similar. So far, it seems like a good year.
Your vase of flowers add brightness to my very chilly – and blustery – winter’s day 🙂
Glad to know that, Anne. 🌸 🌼 Thanks!
Beautiful summer colours this week Eliza! I love that with self-sown annuals you never really know what you’ll get until they bloom.
Thank you, Chris! To quote Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates…” 😉
I can feel the heat of the summer sun in those gorgeous blooms.
And boy, it has been hot, lol! Stay cool, Donna. 😎
Summer delight💐
Which makes these beauties a composition of composites!
What a bright, cheery collection. As dark, windy, and rainy as it is here in the heart of hurricane Beryl, it’s a wonderful sight: almost as cheering as the fact that I still have power!
What a wonderful bloom in the centre, quite perfect, and the mahogany eye is ‘eye-catching’ to say the least.
Thank you, Noelle. I’ve always loved the variety of Gloriosa daisies.
I do love Brown (black)-Eyed Susans. And they are one of the few that I actually know by their Rudbeckia name 🙂 Love those mahogany-coloured ones. Beautiful!
Thank you, Dale! x
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Those buttery yelllow zinnias are really pretty Eliza, and make me realise that I usually only have pinks/purples and sometimes orange – but I have a mix this year, so who knows! Cherry Brandy is one of the rudbeckia I always grow, although it is not as reliable here as some. I love this simple collection of composites, so thanks for sharing
Thank you very much, Cathy. Simple arrangements can showcase and highlight a few special ones.
Yes indeed
I do enjoy seeing what’s popping up in your garden! These are beautiful examples 😊
Thank you, Belinda. I’m having trouble keeping up with all this rain and heat. It’s becoming a jungle!
Such a cheerful bouquet. Thanks-those flowers made me smile.
Thank you, Monika, glad to add some sunshine to your day. 🙂
I love composite flowers – there’s nothing more cheerful than daisies! (I suppose Violas might argue that point…) Both my Rudbeckias and my Zinnias are well behind yours but I do have some shaggy Shasta daisies, at least until the heat takes them out.
Thank you, Kris. Nothing beats the long-flowering of composites, except maybe alstroemeria. 🙂
Those Rudbeckias are lovely Eliza. A common name for Rudbeckias in Germany (and for Echinacea too) is ‘sun hats’, and you can see why when looking at them from above. 😃
Thank you, Cathy. Sun hats for fairies. 🙂
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Wow! I have never seen such Rubdeckias and Zinnia!
Thank you, Hien. They are breeding some great cultivars these days. 🙂
A beautiful combo! Such nice, rich colors.
Thank you, Rebecca!
A sunny July morning in a Vase. I love some of the newer varieties in deeper colors, very pretty.
Thank you, Amy. Not that inspired, but at least it is fresh. 😉
Love those Rudbeckias. They are a mainstay of my garden from mid-July on and I love how their incestuous breeding creates new colours all the time!
Those bees are busy matchmakers! 😉 Thanks, Jenny.
Love the Rudbeckia. Independence Day fireworks for me was seeing 100+ of them blooming in my community garden plot on the 4th.
They are quite pleasing to the eye (and to the pollinators as well)!
Nothing as pure as a flower’s color/s. Mesmerizing. (Our 118 and 117 back to back days was tough. Today was a chilly 110.)
I have been thinking of you out there in this blistering heat. It must be terrible. Hang in there. 😥
I must have deadheaded too diligently last summer. I usually have several clumps of Black-Eyed Susans and this year I have none. Beautiful bouquet.
Thank you, I usually leave a few heads for the birds and the rest I sprinkle around wild spots where I’d like to see more. This year, I kept a few too many plants as now I see I have LOTS of flowers, but the pollinators are loving it.
Hard to beat rudbeckias for sunshine in a vase! Nice cool zinnias there too. Lovely.
Thank you, Allison!
Love the beautiful combination of colors and learning about composites!🙂
Thanks, it’s a huge family from Asters to Zinnias!
Bold and beautiful!
Thank you! 🌼
Flowers never fail to bring joy to my heart. Great photo.
Thank you, Ali!