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Eliza Waters 
And to think — now I know what I’m looking at!
I posted with you in mind. 🙂
What an apropos name for these glorious blossoms.
Thank you, Tanja. They are putting on quite the show this year.
Glorious!
Yes! 🙂 Thanks, Cindy.
These look very cheerful in your garden 🙂
They fairly glow! Thanks, Anne. 🙂
Almost a meadow…I see Cleome, too.
Yes, and Echinacea and Nicotiana…happy pollinators. 🙂
They really are💐💐💐
Thank you, Val! 🙂
What a nice name
Very apt, I think!
They grow very well next to the cleome flowers in the background!
Thank you, Hien. I’ve been cutting lots of them for inside, and more are coming!
They sure scream ‘summer’ with an exclamation point!
Absolutely! 🙂
How can one not smile looking at this beautiful sight?
Thanks, Dale. It’s been a good year for them, not a lot of nibbles so far. Though I’m not sure that is a good sign or not!
My roses usually get destroyed by the blasted Japanese beetles. Welp! I looked outside my front door at my coneflowers…. Oy. They didn’t get them all but they have wreaked havoc.
I’m pretty good at going out with a wide-mouth jar of soapy water, morning or evening to drop them into. After a few years, their numbers have become bearable (just barely)!
I was capturing them and leaving them to suffocate in a mason jar. 😏
There were none in the front of my house then!
The soapy water catches them and keeps them from escaping… to the depths they go! (Cue evil laugh!)
Muahahahahaha! Guess what I’ll be doing?
😉
Is *that* what they are??? I’ve seen these things, but I just assumed they were a variety of coneflower. They’ve certainly been appropriately named!
Thank you, Debbie. They’re like a black-eyed susan on steroids!
Lovely! A Rudbeckia? Is it a hardy one?
Thanks, Cathy! It is a tetraploid Rudbeckia hirta. Listed as a perennial, mine don’t overwinter, so are a self-sowing annual.
Oh, that’s great that they come back on their own!
Makes it easy. 🙂
Delightful yellow fellows!
Thanks, Sandy. Practically a hedge of yellow!
They are truly glorious Eliza, what a treat to see! 💛 xxx
Thank you, Xenia! 🌼💛
So lovely! I’m looking to pick up some plugs of these soon as my neglected sunflower seedlings are looking sad.
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Thank you, Kris. It is a great, long-flowering plant for the garden, and I love it in arrangements. It lasts and lasts.
So pretty 😊
Thank you, Belinda. The garden is at peak right now and I’m loving it! 🙂
Glorious indeed, what a perfect summer shot!
Thank you very much, Tina!
This is a beautiful pic!
Thank you very much!
What a glorious sight, especially to us in the southern hemisphere locked in the midst of winter.
Thank you, Vicki. It is nice that we can brighten each other’s winter when living in opposite hemispheres. 🙂
They are so beautiful in a massed planting like yours.
Thank you, Tom. I used to plant my cutting garden in rows, so boring and harder to tie up. I’ve learned clumping looks and works much better! Always living and learning. 🙂
These are so beautiful, Eliza. What a wonderful garden.
Thank you, Rebecca. The amazing thing is that just about all that you see are self-sown. All I have to do in spring is to choose which stays to bloom another season. I love that! Nature is very generous. 🙂
I’m pretty sure that it takes a “green thumb” to have a garden that looks like this. 🙂
🙂 Thanks, it is where I’m happiest. 💚
The full glory of a lovely garden!
Thanks so much! 🙂
What a beautiful variety! They look more like a sunflower than a daisy to me.
Thank you, Denise. And the patterns vary from year to year.
My first instinct was black-eyed Susans, though I could see a difference. I take it that gloriosa daisies were bred from wild Rudbeckia hirta.
Yes, they have an extra chromosome, making them much larger.
Appropriately named!
Yes, truly it is!