Black eyed suzies! moved themselves!

[the1honeycomb]

I planted Black eyed suzies, a beautiful perennial I hoped would make my hill more attractive I have found them every where but where I planted them! in the driveway, the yard at the top of the hill, in the garden!! what is going on

 

[Ridgerunner]

My black eyed susans (I assume we are talking about the same thing) do not live through the winter here. They are not perennials for me. But they self-seed like crazy. I don't know how well the seeds spread on the wind, but I think fairly easily. Maybe birds spread them for you. You may have spread them raking trash and weeds with some flowers in with the other stuff. I just know I had to plant them once. From then on, I have to fight them to keep them contained.

 

[the1honeycomb]

Wow maybe that is the way it is for me! I know they aren't were I put them!! I think they are transplanting though very well!
Thanks Ridgerunner!

 

[ninnymary]

I wish I could grow black-eyed susans. I've bought plants before but they never come back.

Mary

 

[baymule]

Years ago a lonely wild sunflower came up in the garden. I let it grow. Now I have zillions of them, I select one or two and pull the rest. They make a tall bushy plant covered in fist sized bright flowers that attract bees. Love them!
Looks like you are having the same thing happening with the black eyed susans!

 

[Lavender2]

Just curious if you know what type of black-eyed susans any of you are growing (or tried)? Perhaps a different strain would be more plant hardy for you. I have Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldstrum', it spreads from roots as well as some seeding, but not as 'seedy' as hirta (the popular native strain).

Long dry hot spells is the only thing that causes some struggles with Goldstrum, so that could be an issue in warmer climates than mine unless you keep them watered. But they should be hardy perennials in 3-9 zones.

 

[ninnymary]

Lavender, I've tried Goldstrum but it doesn't seem to grow for me. One street over, someone had some that always came back. But I don't see them anymore. I don't know if they died or the owner got rid of them.

Mary

 

[Ridgerunner]

I have no idea what variety mine are, just that they reseed all over the place.

 

[lesa]

Mine started in one spot- and I now have clumps of them, pretty much everywhere! I do see the goldfinch eating the seeds in the winter. They may be helping with the moving around. The only other flower I have that spreads even more, is the dreaded daisy.

 

[ducks4you]

THAT is great to know--about the reseeding. I have been planting anything and everything under my 7 pine trees, south lawn, next to my neighbor. It is partial full sun, mostly partial shade to full shade.
First, I was mowing weeds that I could hardly reach underneath them, so I raised the crowns. They, when I was double digging I moved the dirt there. Last year I was pulling weeds like crazy and it was turning into a weed fest. Last fall I planted 45 daffodils, but they're gonna take forwever to multiply and fill in. I've planted like 150 onions there and some wildflower seeds. Soon, I will be moving a 3 ft x 15 ft strip of overgrown lilly of the valley that are growing on the north side of the house (full shade.)
I have a package of 10,000 Black Eyed Susan seeds that go in next.\
NICE TO KNOW that they are that hardy.