Little Bluestem
$16.00Blue-green in summer, copper and mahogany from September until you cut it down in April.
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'
$13.001 gal64 on the bench
Solid gold from August into October, when most of the border has given up.
- ONTARIO NATIVE
- FEEDS POLLINATORS
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About this plant
Goldsturm is the cultivar that made this plant a fixture, and it is still the best of them — denser and more uniform than the straight species without looking like it came from a catalogue.
It hits its stride exactly when a perennial border starts looking tired, which is the whole argument for it. Paired with grasses it carries a bed from August to hard frost.
Deer will browse it in a hard year, so if you back onto bush, plant it where you can see it happening.
Looking after it
- Water
- Average; will wilt dramatically then recover
- Soil
- Tolerant, including clay
- Deadheading
- Not needed. Leave the heads for the birds
- Division
- Every three years; it spreads by rhizome
Plant it with
Purple Coneflower
$14.00The workhorse of a pollinator border. Flowers for two months and feeds goldfinches all winter.
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
$14.00Broccoli-green all summer, dusty pink in September, rust-brown through the snow.