Growing Non-GMO Caramel Rudbeckia Flower Seeds

Sow Caramel seeds directly outdoors after all danger of frost has passed, or get a jump start by sowing indoors 6 to 8 weeks before your last frost date. Press seeds onto the soil surface or barely cover them, since light aids germination, and keep the soil consistently moist until seedlings emerge, usually within 7-21 days at soil temperatures of 70-95 F. Space plants 10 to 12 inches apart in a full sun to partial shade location.

Once established, Caramel is not particular about soil type and tolerates heat and dry spells with ease, though consistent moisture and good drainage produce the strongest, showiest plants. Deadhead spent blooms regularly to encourage continued flowering from midsummer all the way through the first fall frosts.

Caramel Rudbeckia in the Flower Garden

Caramel trades the classic golden yellow of a traditional Black-Eyed Susan for a warm, smoky palette of caramel, honey, copper, amber, and vintage rose, each bloom centered with a dark chocolate brown cone. Compact, upright plants hold their double and semi-double flowers on sturdy stems, making Caramel equally at home in a cottage border, a cutting garden, or a container planting. The blooms strongly attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators throughout the growing season.

Harvesting Caramel Rudbeckia

Caramel makes a long-lasting cut flower. Cut stems in the cool of the morning once blooms are fully open, choosing flowers with pollen just beginning to show at the center for the best vase life. Strip any foliage that would sit below the water line and place stems in fresh water immediately after cutting. Regular cutting, like deadheading, encourages plants to continue producing new blooms.

About Caramel Rudbeckia Garden Seeds

Caramel belongs to a group of gloriosa daisy-type Rudbeckia hirta varieties bred for double and semi-double flowers in warm, unusual color blends, a departure from the species' native golden yellow form.

Rudbeckia hirta is native to much of North America, where the species grows wild in prairies, meadows, and along roadsides, and Caramel carries forward that same easygoing, weed-competing toughness in a garden setting.

Though most often grown as a reliable annual, Caramel may behave as a short-lived perennial and return for a second season in warmer, more temperate climates.

Tips From Our Gardeners

Let a few of the last blooms of the season go to seed instead of deadheading. Finches and other seed-eating birds will visit the dried seed heads well into fall and winter.

- Jerry Sawyer, True Leaf Market Writer

Caramel Rudbeckia Seeds Per Package:

• 25 Seed Packet
• 100 Seeds

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