The glorified Black-eyed Susan—one of our best native flowers (giant hybrid tetraploid Rudbeckia) also makes an excellent pot plant.
The stems are shorter than when grown out of doors, but that is really an advantage for a pot plant.
If desired for a cut flower, the longer-stemmed, outdoor Gloriosa daisy is better.
This improvement of a roadside growing native could be used to good advantage with other native flowers and plants.
The large, even spectacular daisy-like blooms are borne on long, stiff stems 18” inches to 2’ feet high when grown out of doors.
The vivid, broad yellow petals are long and tapering to a rich brown at the center. Some blooms are semi-double, while others are almost double.
Growing Gloriosa Daisy
Gloriosa daisy is easy to grow. The flowers average about 5” inches across. The seed may be planted where plants are to remain, but Gloriosa also transplants well.
However, sowing seed where plants are to stay is easier and more desirable. This striking plant is really a perennial but may be handled as an annual.
If seeds are sown as soon as soil conditions permit, they will bloom in the late summer and fall the first year from seed.
In the second year, they will bloom all summer. Gloriosa will also self-sow if seeds are allowed to be set.
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