Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan flowers

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan flowers

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Group/Class:  Sunny Susy Series

Description:

This variety features exotic looking flowers, showcasing beautiful scarlet blooms, edged in yellow with a deep black eye; great for training up trellises and fences or hanging from baskets; long blooming; deadhead to encourage new growth

Ornamental Features

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan features bold scarlet star-shaped flowers with black eyes and yellow edges along the stems from early summer to mid fall. Its serrated oval leaves remain green in color throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan is an herbaceous annual with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and can be pruned at anytime. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting
• Hanging Baskets

Planting & Growing

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan will grow to be about 8 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. As a climbing vine, it should either be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. This fast-growing annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by cuttings; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Sunny Susy® Amber Stripes Black-Eyed Susan is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. It is even sizeable enough that it can be grown alone in a suitable container. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.