Cappuccino Rudbeckia Seeds

Description

When our director of seeds took her European tour to find the newest and best flower and vegetable varieties, she knew before she got out of the Amsterdam airport that Rudbeckia Cappuccino was going to be one of them. The advertising campaign launched to announce this Hungarian-bred, French-grown black-eyed Susan is tremendous, and for once, the plant not only lived up to its hype but far exceeded it. Let’s just say it before we go any fartherthis is the best new flower to grow in your perennial border, bar none.

The blooms are huge by black-eyed Susan standards4 inches across, easily. They sport petals divided into golden-yellow and mahoganhy-red, all surrounding the familiar dark brown to black center. Long-lasting on the plant or in the vase, they are like mini sunflowers, radiating warm color and, in the garden, bringing butterflies in by the dozen.

Unlike older Rudbeckias, this plant isn’t one-tenth blooms to nine-tenths foli