Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia hirta ‘Cherry Brandy’
Other Common Names: Black-eyed Susan, Gloriosa Daisy
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Perennial
Height at Maturity: 18-24″
Width at Maturity: 12-18″
Spacing: 18″ for mass plantings or solid borders
Spacing: 18″ for mass plantings or solid borders
Growth Habit / Form: Mounding
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: Vivid Deep Red shades with Dark Almost Black cone
Flower Size: 3-4″
Flowering Period: Summer to Frost
Flower Type: Single, Daisy
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained, Moist
Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Butterflies, Birds, Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit
Description
A red Black-eyed Susan? Yep!..meet ‘Cherry Brandy’, the first ever red flowering Rudbeckia. From Summer to frost this dazzling selection features abundant, 3 to 4 inch coneflowers in shades of vivid deep red with a dark chocolate brown/almost black center cone. Deadheading will encourage prolific blooming but remember in fall to leave some of the last flowers on the plant so their seeds can provide winter food for birds. Excellent for cut flowers throughout the summer and fall!
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 1 to 1.5 feet wide, the Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or in groupings or mass plantings in sunny landscape or woodland borders and perennial gardens. Its low and mounding form lends well for use as a border along paths and walkways. A fine addition to butterfly, cut flower, cottage and red color theme gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 1.5 feet apart for mass plantings or solid borders
Growing Preferences
The Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia is very easy to grow in most any well-drained but moist soil in full to mostly sun. Provide at least 6 hours of direct sun for best flowering. As with many other perennial plants, constantly soggy or wet soils are problematic. Heavy, dense clay soils should be amended with organic matter to improve drainage.
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