Brown-eyed and Black-eyed Susans

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Blueaussi

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My front yard has been sadly neglected this year, so I was pleased and surprised to see a Brown-eyed Susan had sprouted out of a crack in the sidewalk right next to the front flower bed. I don't have any Brown-eyed Susans in that bed, but lots of Black-eyed Susans. I tried to take a picture to share, but the Black-eyed Susans are so abundant right now, they drowned out the Brown-eyed Susans!

I finally cropped around the pictures and zoomed in on the Brown-eyed Susans, and you still can't really tell they're not Black-eyed Susans. In the second picture, the tall plant to the right is the Brown-eyed Susan.
 

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myfedora

New Member
Hmm I didn't know that there was brown eyed susans. I might have some and calling them black eyed susans.
 

Blueaussi

New Member
I'm sorry my pictures don't show the contrast. They're taller than Black-eyed Susans, and the flowers look like miniature Black-eyed Susans. I love them, and I was pleased to find this one, even if the dang thing did grow in a crack in the sidewalk. I'll hand scatter of its seeds in the flower bed this fall.
 

myfedora

New Member
Well if that is the case my mother just gave me some a couple of weeks ago. She was calling them mini black eyed susans.
 

Blueaussi

New Member
Brown-eyed Susans are Rudbeckia triloba, not Rudbeckia hirta like Black-eyed Susans, if you want to look up more inforamtion on them.
 
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Kale

Guest
Brown-Eye Susan..
Not the best shot one can take but I have an iso (camera setting) infatuation and keep forgetting to lower it*LOL

Sadly, I do not find mine multiplying like Black Eye Susans. (nuts but a keeper*lol) Also there is a new variety that get a really ugly virus on the foliage (which has rather large leaves.) Not sure what the cause or repair.I met several people, I went to go see, sure enough the same issues,completely different environment. So I am guess they either bought them from the same place or just the same string.

Kale:)
 

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