Brown-eyed Susans

Last year I scattered some brown-eyed Susan seeds in my miniature meadow (mm) in the back yard and planted a few potted blanket flowers. Inexplicably, I can find no photos of last year's mm, despite my belief that I had posted such photos last year. Oh, well. This year, a crop of brown-eyed Susan popped up in my mm, by which I was pleased. Early on, the first couple of times that Hunky Husband mowed our grass this year, he avoided one plant out in the middle of our "out back" because he thought it might be a flower that I had planted. Hmmm...eventually, it became obvious that it was a displaced brown-eyed Susan. I happen to like brown-eyed Susans from the plants that grew wild in our cow pastures WIWAK. The photo, below, shows the lone plant in the foreground and my mm in the background.

Had the brown-eyed Susans not come up this year, my mm would have been pretty barren once the daffodils wound down. A few blanket flowers came up, but they were so stunted that one would not know they were there unless one did a close inspection. Those few have already gone to seed (photo, below). Other than the rose and tomatoes which I purchased earlier this year, I've not broken isolation to buy seeds/plants.

Comments

[bogie]

I am impressed that HH figured out the one plant was something not to be mowed - I wouldn't have figured it out. Course, I probably wouldn't even have seen it :)

[Cop Car]

If a plant is growing higher than the grass/weeds, HH fears that it may be something I planted; thus, I get to mow down the little trees sprouting up from old roots. However, he did save the Brown-eyed Susan with which I was pleased. I'm like you that I probably wouldn't have seen it (or, in my case, noticed it).

[Liz Hinds]

They are pretty. I tried sowing some wild flower seeds once; they didn't take. But this year I gave them more attention, planted them like proper plants i.e. didn't just toss them on the ground, and they've worked well.