Monday, September 6, 2010

New Dark Red Flowers!

Two new dark red flowers in the garden today:

















I don't know what the name of this hollyhock is. The only thing I can think of that might be close is the double scarlet from Germania, but I think of 'scarlet' as being a lot lighter and brighter than this. It's beautiful, and I hope it has time to set and ripen seeds before winter hits, because I really want to keep this one around. I don't know how much cross pollination has taken place, but there aren't any other hollyhocks on this side of the house.















Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy'. It's been around a few years now, but the seeds have always been too expensive for me. I sprang for a few this spring, and they are just as gorgeous as the catalogs make them out to be - so often not the case! Hopefully they'll make seeds I can capture before the birds get them, and hopefully they haven't crossed with the other kinds of rudbeckia I've got going around the house.

2 comments:

  1. The first flower looks like it came from another planet. Hahaha. I need to get out of the house more.

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  2. What's funny is that, while it looks so exotic, it's nothing more than a black-eyed Susan in a new color; a wild flower in fancy dress!

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