Well we took a week off for some family health imbalance. We are slowly regaining our balance.
This time of year the weather overwhelms the gardens even more than the deer. The heat and drought
starts to turn everything brown. It is the time of year for brown-eyed susans (Rudbeckia triloba).They are also called thin-leaved coneflower. It is a native in the aster family.
The primary stem has numerous branches, giving the plant an open, bushy appearance. The stems and branches and leaves are hairy. The basal leaves have three lobes (hence The Latin triloba).
One or two flower heads appear at the end of individual upper stems. Each flower head has six to twelve bright yellow ray florets surrounding a purplish brown flattened cone of disk florets. The flower heads are abundant and showy, although they have little or no scent.
MASSACRE
Brown-eyed Susan lay a'dying
Beside the bridal lace.
August's sun caressed her warmly,
But she couldn't lift her face.
Her young body was quickly withering
With love cut down in fullest bloom.
It was such a senseless massacre,
It should'a been her honeymoon.
Smells of earth still filled her senses
And as a breeze ruffled her face,
Brown-eyed Susan reached out a petal
To touch the fading Queen Anne's lace.
. . . inspired by the two wildflowers I saw dying side-by-side as I walked down the road after the county mower had trimmed the roadsides.
Jennifer Wilson 1924
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