Cathy at Words and Herbs is once again hosting her annual Week of Flowers, where bloggers reflect back to warmer, sunnier days in our gardens and the delights we grew therein. Click the link to see what others are sharing this week.
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Eliza Waters 
Love this little blast of sunshine, are they Helenium or Rudbeckia?
They are a larger variety of Rudbeckia hirta with a bit of mahogany coloring. An extra chromosome may be involved perhaps?
Really pretty
Thanks for that burst of golden sunshine Eliza! ☀️💕 I am enjoying this week so much!
Thank you, Cathy. Such a great meme you’ve created… so much fun!
With snow on the way I like your sunny forecast 😊
Thanks, Belinda. We’re getting 2-3″ Wed/Thurs. Definitely getting us in the holiday mood! ❄️
Lovely … some of my Rudbeckia ‘Sputnik’ this year had markings like these.
Thank you,Allison. My gloriosas cross and self-sow annually, I sometimes get lucky. 🙂
G l o r i o u s ….for sure! We’re so incredibly fortunate to live on a planet with flowers & photographers!
G l o r i o u s ….for sure! We’re so incredibly fortunate to live on a planet with flowers & photographers!
Flowers R Us! 😀 Thanks, Alice!
It would be nice to see this meme again in February when spring feels a long way off! 😁🌼
It feels like a dream right now, haha!
There’s a good reason they call those Gloriosa Daisies! So beautiful.
Thank you, Monika. I really like the mahogany coloring, lots of variety in their form.
Amen on the mahogany tones. That why I can’t have enough of the Plumbago groundcover in my garden…it’s soooo pretty and sure beats turf.
A perfect week for wonderful summer flowers with our very cold temperatures.🙂
Our night temps have been in the teens– it seems the bottom fell out without much warning! Stay warm!
Nothing makes me smile quicker than a Black-eyed Susan. Except maybe a group of them like these!
Thanks, Tom. These were pretty spectacular this year. 🙂
Yellow flowers as I always say are god’s smiles on earth 🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻
I love your poetic mind! 💛💛
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Splendid! When were these blooming like this? Do they continue until frost, or finish before the weather cools? I should know this, but have never grown them here.
They are a good annual, they start in July here and generally run to frost if deadheaded. They will stop blooming once seed is set. I usually leave a few of the ones I like to set seed. They make a great cut flower. Not sure how they would behave in SoCal heat however. Generally drought tolerant, but foliage is prone to mildew.
My garden is in Northern California, near San Jose. The best of these that I have seen were in climates that get warmer during summer, but I have seen only a few here, and only in nurseries, but none in Southern California.
Now you’ve got me wondering if “gloriosa daisy” arose as the kind of marketing ploy that turned “Chinese gooseberry” into “kiwi fruit.”
Yellow flowers have a special place in my heart.
They certainly are cheery. 🙂 Thanks, Maria.
Somehow I missed this yesterday! The yellow is like a cheery smile (and cleome are lovely).
Thank you, Susie. Nothing like a daisy to cheer us up!
Missed this one, just gorgeous!! 🤩🤗🌻
Thank you, Susan!
These glorious daisies are aptly named!
Thank you, Tanja. They are a fun flower to grow.