Rudbeckia Hirta
Black-eyed Susans…
I believe these are very difficult to kill but somehow I managed to let 90% of the divisions my sister gave me a couple of year ago die.
A lot of things could have happened… (Shame /on) I am guilty of planting or sowing something and then mistakenly pulling it as a weed months later, so maybe that’s what happened. (Shame /off)
Who knows…
Regardless, I had forgotten about them and hadn’t noticed the plant’s recovery until the blooms exploded recently. (These were hidden behind a mountain of Tarragon in an area that is off to the side and out of the sight line from the sun room.)
So there you have it- flowers do exist behind the fence. As further proof, I offer this bonus picture of my (mostly) purple coneflower herd:
Carry on…
Behind cohutt's fence 
I’ll trade you more rudbeckia and/or Becky Shastas for some purple coneflower and tarragon!
I think we can work something out. 🙂
The coneflowers were started from seed in spring 2012 and transplanted last fall. The have done well and even if none need dividing yet I obviously could thin the plot by a plant or two. Tarragon root runners make bamboo look tame; I will save a couple vs pulling and disposing as artichoke encroaching weeds.
Don’t you hate it when your realise (generally at about 3 AM) that you pulled up “weeds” exactly where you sowed that really special seed 2 weeks earlier? I’ve gotten a lot better at letting weeds establish themselves a bit better before I declare them thus and decree their execution and it’s saved me lots of good food.
I still do it. I no learn. 😉
Rudbeckia is a personal favorite and I love what you planted along the fence with the weathered wood behind it…great look.
Unfortunately we can’t see these from the sunroom. I have some more transplants to find a spot for this weekend (thanks sis) and am going to try and make them more “visible”.