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Black-eyed Susan Cherry Brandy

Rudbeckia hirta / Black-eyed Susan

RedFocalAnnual

‘Cherry Brandy’ is a red-wine Rudbeckia hirta grown from seed for summer and autumn cut flowers. It gives growers the familiar black-eyed Susan shape with a much richer cherry, burgundy and mahogany palette than standard yellow forms. It is best planned as an annual, started in plugs for uniformity, planted in full sun with airflow, and harvested open rather than in tight bud. Its main caution is that compact height, wet-weather petal marking and cold-storage dulling can reduce premium grade, so the first planting should be treated as a colour and stem-length trial before scaling up.

Black-eyed Susan Cherry Brandy cut flower

Overview

Why growers use it

‘Cherry Brandy’ is a red-wine Rudbeckia hirta grown from seed for summer and autumn cut flowers. It gives growers the familiar black-eyed Susan shape with a much richer cherry, burgundy and mahogany palette than standard yellow forms. It is best planned as an annual, started in plugs for uniformity, planted in full sun with airflow, and harvested open rather than in tight bud. Its main caution is that compact height, wet-weather petal marking and cold-storage dulling can reduce premium grade, so the first planting should be treated as a colour and stem-length trial before scaling up.

Floral use

Design and market fit

Role

Focal

Texture

Velvety petals around a dark, raised cone; slightly bristly stems and leaves; strong daisy geometry with rustic texture.

Tone

Warm, saturated, moody, autumnal, earthy and dramatic rather than pastel or bright primary yellow.

Form

Single daisy with broad ray petals and a prominent dark cone.

Bouquet fit

Excellent for moody garden bouquets, autumn subscriptions, rustic wedding work, jewel-tone designs, burgundy-and-gold palettes, cottage-garden bouquets and naturalistic mixed bunches. Use with grasses, amaranth, celosia, zinnias, dahlias, basil, mint, millet, sunflowers, scabiosa and warm-toned foliage.

Event use

Best for late-summer and autumn weddings, farm dinners, harvest events, rustic celebrations, Thanksgiving-style palettes and dramatic market bouquets. Use carefully in formal bridal work because the strong dark centre and red colour dominate soft palettes.

Color notes

Orange, Gold, Yellow, Brown

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Black-eyed Susan Autumn Colors

Orange / Focal

‘Autumn Colors’ is a warm-toned Rudbeckia hirta cultivar for growers who want easy summer-to-autumn colour with a strong seasonal story. It is not the longest-stemmed rudbeckia, but it gives excellent visual value in farm bouquets because every bunch can include gold, orange, bronze, mahogany, and bicolour faces. Grow it from plugs for reliability, give it sun and airflow, harvest promptly at mature open stage, and sell it fresh through local channels.

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Black-eyed Susan Becky Mix

Yellow / Focal

‘Becky Mix’ is a compact, large-flowered black-eyed Susan for growers who want cheerful warm color rather than maximum stem length. It produces bright yellow, orange, cinnamon, bronze, and bronzy-red daisy flowers with dark cones, bringing a strong late-summer and autumn feeling to bouquets. Plan it as a seed-grown annual cut flower for local markets, subscriptions, and rustic event work. Start early, grow in full sun, avoid overfeeding, harvest when flowers are opening rather than tight buds, and sell it fresh where its warm, pollinator-friendly look is part of the story.

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Gold / Focal

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Open variety
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Black-eyed Susan Cherokee Sunset

Yellow / Focal

‘Cherokee Sunset’ is the warm, dramatic version of black-eyed Susan for growers who want more than standard yellow. Its semi-double and double flowers bring gold, orange, rust, bronze, mahogany, and chocolate tones into one crop, making it especially valuable for autumn weddings, farmstand bouquets, subscriptions, and earthy florist palettes. It is not the most weatherproof flower in humid rain, but when grown with good airflow and sold fresh, it delivers a high-impact seasonal look that customers immediately understand.

Open variety
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Black-eyed Susan Chim Chiminee

Yellow / Focal

‘Chim Chiminee’ is a distinctive black-eyed Susan for growers who want something more textured and memorable than a standard yellow daisy. It produces warm gold, bronze, orange, mahogany, and brown-toned blooms with narrow quilled or spidery petals around a dark cone. Plan it as a seed-grown summer-to-autumn cut flower, start early for good stems, harvest before blooms are over-open, and sell it where customers appreciate local, rustic, pollinator-friendly flowers.

Open variety
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Yellow / Focal

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Open variety
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Yellow / Secondary focal

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Open variety
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Black-eyed Susan Macau

Yellow / Focal

Tall spray Rudbeckia with miniature golden blooms and dark cones for sunny, meadow-style summer bouquets.

Open variety
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Black-eyed Susan Marmalade

Orange / Focal

‘Marmalade’ is a warm, golden-orange Black-eyed Susan grown mainly as a first-year flowering annual for summer and autumn cuts. It gives growers an easy, recognisable daisy form with a dark centre and strong seasonal personality. It is best used where cheerful colour, rustic texture, and local freshness matter more than formal perfection. The crop is generally straightforward, but saleable quality depends on clean foliage, firm stems, good airflow, and harvesting flowers when they are opening rather than too tight or rain-damaged.

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