Why EVERY Garden Needs Black Eyed Susans, and HOW to Grow Them From Seed 

I have a guy who stops by randomly in the summertime to check out my garden & he always brings cereal for my kids! He works at the factory & drives through my street on purpose! (I have a front yard garden) I also had a lady at the doctors office say she goes out of her way to work to drive by too!!

Man, if i ever got a car stopped in front of my yard and gave me a compliment, that would make my day.

Ok, wow. Thank you, RU-vid algorithm! You are totally made for this. Looking forward to watching your channel grow!

I got a bit of R. fulgida from a lady I did some weeding for about 5 years ago, and if I consider how many I've separated, sown, or had volunteers from that one plant I've probably made about a hundred plants, conservatively. Always recommend susans to those who say they "can't keep flowers alive" outside!

Love to see all the native plant hype! 🙌

Both Rudbeckia hirta Indian Summer and R. fulgida Goldsturm flowered in the first year for me.

They are beautiful! My husband is the gardener in our family. He is a dedicated naturalist and he is working on replacing the invasive plants with natural ones in our new home. I am a professional artist and I share my paintings on RU-vid. Cheers on a Monday!

I have black eyed Susan's that volunteered in my flower bed in front last year. I'm keeping them. I made sure no one touched them. I should mention that we have mainly sand. Michigan sand. Yet, it's very green here.

Wow - thank you for the shout out. Great video too.

I am digging the content and tempo of this video. Very nice work 👊🏻🌻👊🏻

Thanks for reminding me it's time to plant my natives. As I live in Denmark, my natives are different than yours, but I do love rudbeckia...

I, a black thumb person who is determined to learn and grow, was given a packet of seeds and wasn’t sure how to feel about them. But your knowledge, love, and enthusiasm for rudbeckia is contagious! I’m now excited to try these in my yard. Thank you!

A MUST have! I love them, have them everywhere. They look great next to some Salvia and Sage. ❤❤❤

They grow wild everywhere around where i live, i love them. In east Texas there's some that are really big, triple the size, and it's the only place I've ever seen them. Along the highways growing wild. They look the same just much bigger. This year in going to harvest me some of those! I've never used seeds for these.

Commenting to boost native plant info in the algorithm! I was gifted black eyes Susan’s years ago and haven’t had to start my own since they’re pretty good at doing it themselves 😂

I`m gonna attempt to plant some flowers for the bumblebees this year but I typically grow just food. The honeybees like my blooming mustard and a lot of it is beginning to bolt and they`re already visiting the flowers here in zone 8a Louisiana. And I`m planting giant sunflowers and some sunflower seeds I saved from bird seeds to give to the birds here that grew last year...well...3 of them only because of armadillos. The birds help a lot with pests in my garden so I try to attract them. Armadillos uprooted so much stuff last year like my Scarlett Runner "7 year" Pole Beans for the hummingbirds. They have edible bean pods and beans. They make an edible tuber too and the vines grow back year after year. I made friends with a wild bunny I helped with water and garden food during the drought last year so I ordered a simple cheap fence that can keep her away from plants I don`t want her eating but the armadillos are determined little bulldozers. So I got a gigantic bulk bag of the hottest type of red pepper powder, full strength mint oil, and made pine oil/alcohol mix from chunks of pine sap on a tree here. Maybe they won`t like sniffing around with these everywhere? They go straight to the mulch around my plants and ruin everything. So if I plant just a small spot with rare seeds they might show up like last year and destroy them.

She deserves an award 🎉

Aw I loved when you mentioned how a community responds to your garden and how motivating that is! That sunny insight and humble outlook made me immediately subscribe 🌼

10:17 Most important sentence in the whole video. Would hat w for some one to be disappointed and not keep trying with natives.

Am in zone 4. I simply put some seeds in a couple of pots and put in right beside the window in early March. It was cold enough by the window that it seemed to work. By 3rd week in May its safe to transplant outdoors, the plants were already a good 8-15" high. They began flowering in the first week of June! It's the solstice now, they are already beginning to fill in with flowers.

I sure hope the algorithm blesses you with more traffic!! Excellent video, information, production value, your energy, all perfect!

A good friend of mine absolutely loved the black eyed Susan! Unfortunately, he died a few yrs ago, so I figured I would grow 'em from seed, and leave his favorite flower on his grave... I miss you, Kevin😢

WOW thanks. My designer just planted seven. I can't wait.

Planting in Drifts: Great illustration idea using nuts, seeds & star anise ! Spot On Lisa - it's so much easier to see suggested placement - differing colors & textures clearly illustrating where to position your plants in the bed. Love this 🎉 Just found your channel & I subscribed - looking forward to your content - native plant gardens are essential! You are so fun to watch & knowledgeable ! I'll be adding one or 2 of your suggested Black-Eyed Susans. Greetings from Virginia Beach, VA, where I garden & teach on my property adjacent to a salt marsh. Thank you!

yay. I'm ready for Native Plants RU-vid! Thank you so much! so glad to find you! From Michigan.

Great video!!! Staple in the garden!

Great video!

Those flowers are really pretty!

Thanks for such an interesting and informative video! I really like the way you designed this vlog; it was like watching a top-class documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it. learnt so much. Can't wait to grow these seeds.

I Love your channel! Love, love, love native plants. I am just started a garden with these plants. Thanks for all the info. Keep it coming. I like seeing all these plants I have never heard of. I was a annual girl

Outstanding presentation. New to native gardening but really enjoying it. Thank you.

Very informative, didn't know anything about these flowers, gonna try these , thx

Great video, thanks for sharing! I look forward to watching more and transforming my own yard. cheers.

Girl! This was excellent! I’m a new Sub! 🙏🏽

Love your channel. Im trying to turn two acres in Texas into a plant paradise, English cottage garden style. Subscribed and watched to the end. Great content!

I am taking black eyed susan volunteers this weekend to a seed swap. I have a patch of them in my vegetable garden. When I deadhead the tops, they go into the compost pile. For all intents and purposes I do cold composting, so most of the seeds in the compost are not deactivated. Then I put the “finished” compost on my veggie beds. I find all sorts of volunteers. I have learned to embrace the volunteer. I move them to a more desired location. I pot them up to share with others. I try not to call them weeds.

Informative and funny video! Thanks for putting this flower story together. Creative!

Subscribed 👍🏽 Love it!

Happy St. Valentines Day! I am going to transplant the Love Lilly my husband bought me and plant some beautiful flowers around it :D

Thank you

Love this overview! I ordered R. lanciniata seed last fall, after reading about its use as a favorite green among the Cherokee! (Sochani) i love growing perennial edibles, and it should do well here in the PNW.

Thanks!

This is exactly what I intend to do - a curated cottage-like garden planted from native seeds. This is the only video I’ve found so far explaining how I can direct sow native seeds. So helpful! In terms of numbers of seeds, how do I ensure I’m not using too much or too little? Also if I direct sow in the fall, how can I keep them in place without using lots of plastic bottles to cover all the seeds. Do you think a ring from a plastic bottle around the seeds will work

How did I just now discover you? This is a fantastic format and your explanations are clear. I’m in Michigan as well. I have an acre and a half of lawn in Oxford. I’ve started native gardens in several areas and it’s been an adventure (also a love/hate relationship with the deer). I can’t wait to see more of your videos!

I literally told my daughters yesterday I was done buying seeds for our garden this year and to not encourage the purchase of any more. Ummmm…..just one more packet.

Thanx for all the wonderful info. 1) I have recently put (5) bare roots of this plant in March. (From Lowe's garden center). 2) I'm in North Carolina - zone (7-8). This is a new construction home. Clay soil! 3) Unfortunately, I am not seeing any green growth yet. It's two months now. 4) How does bare root & growing by seed differ in bloom time? Info on the Internet says - 100 days. 5) Will they come up this year at all?

This is the flower I am most I excited to grow this year I have Rudbeckia hirta. I want to do a mass planting in my lawn and saw it mentioned as a groundcover in a book so... I feel justified in starting another flat of them today😂. What would you recommend for spacing? Also if I mulch between plants the first year, should I move the mulch in the next year to allow then to reseed?

I love them, I wish there was a long living perennial thats also short (2 ft or less). The short ones seem to be annuals or they're short lived

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1:47 "They don't know my garden feeds 500 species of lepidoptera." 😂

That and coneflower

Did you grow Filipendula rubra from seed? How long did it take to flower? I got if as seed from Prairie Moon.

I love the green eyed ones 🌻🌻🌻🌻

They have taken over my garden. How to I tame them

I grew up kind of just outside of town where there were still fields of wild flowers like Black Eyed Susans. I really want to plant some in my yard but for two years now I cannot find any. Someone gave me something that looked like Black Eyed susans but it did not make it through the winter. I thought that they were perennials but apparently not. I bought some bare root Rudbeckia but they didn’t grow at all. It is not because of my soil. I grow other plants in my garden. So frustrating.

Can you please help me? Something eats up my BES every year. When they develop buds, they get eaten and chewed looking. They never even get to thrive. Something is eating them a few weeks before developing a flower bud. What could that be. I’m in N. E. Georgia.

i have been planting hirta seeds for 3 years with almost no luck. out of 30 seeds scattered, i have 2 plants. super bummed as i thought they’d help crowd out weeds in my front yard

Can I grow these in a grow bag?

I’m in the process of ripping up all my old weed fabric. I thought I was doing it right. Waste of money, time, and made a barrier to creating better soil.

Very beautiful flowers but toxic to cats apparently, so they’re not in our cat friendly garden 🐱 I go for echinacea instead 🌸

Ok, not for every garden. I have them popping up in my rose garden and they won’t go away.

If you get 1 black eyed Susan you will never need to buy it again.

By me, black eyed Susan’s are candy for the deer.

I feel this video could be a bit more to the point, I kind of skipped through.

These comments appear to be fake AI generated. “Thank you you tube algorithm” (really - who talks like that.) Bye.

No, I don’t like Daisy and they look like daisies to me they’re playing they’re ugly. I don’t like them I like colorful plants.