Late Summer Radiance: Ray Flowers – Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Helenium and their Kin

It’s hard to not love the flowers of late summer! Photo: Rudbeckia hirta ‘Autumn Colors’. For some flowers, hot, dry late-summer North American sun and soil is just what they were built for. These are the sunflowers of late summer… Continue Reading

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Late Summer Radiance: Ray Flowers – Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Helenium and their Kin

It was 102 in the shade at 6:15 pm one evening this week. Mid-August and much of the garden looks like a child defeated by a spelling test – head down on the desk, hair mussed, shoulders slumped, face hidden.… Continue Reading