8 annual rudbeckias

‘Cherry Brandy’

A unique rudbeckia with striking cherryred petals around chocolate-brown cones. Mid-height and with sturdy stems, it’s a great choice for adding jewel-like colour to a late-season border. It’s also a good cut flower. HxS: 24x18in (60x45cm).

‘Chim Chiminee’

Slender, quilled petals give these flowers a chimney-sweep brush appearance, but rather than sooty black they’re a glowing mix of autumnal tones such as ruby red, rusty orange and golden yellow. HxS: 24x18in (60x45cm).

‘Aries’

A particularly eye-catching rudbeckia with two-tone flowers in a striking combination of bright yellow and deep red. It’s especially long-flowering, too, with flowers from July-October, and is ideal for weaving through the middle of a border. HxS: 30x18in (75x45cm).

‘Cherokee Sunset’

Glorious rusty orange flowers that are perfect for the late summer/early autumn garden. The semi-double flowers have an attractive shaggy appearance and they look fantastic in a vase along with dahlias. HxS: 24x18in (60x45cm).

‘Toto’

For a container display that provides months of glowing colour, grow this compact cultivar that forms neat mounds and has multiple branching stems topped with a profusion of small, sunshine-yellow blooms. HxS: 16x12in (40x30cm).

‘Prairie Sun’

A sunny plant with large flower heads made up of unusual pale-green centres surrounded by single rows of orange-yellow petals with paler yellow tips. A tough plant that doesn’t need support. HxS: 32x16in (80x40cm).

‘Chocolate Orange’

A bushy cultivar that has sumptuous bicoloured blooms consisting of mahogany red petals with orange tips that are produced over a long period right up to the first frosts. Plant with dahlias for sparkling autumn colour. HxS: 30x18in (75x45cm).

‘Sahara’

Beloved of florists, this relatively recent introduction produces flowers in a fabulous array of warm tones of peach, copper, dusky pink and caramel. The flowers are also a mix of single, semi-double and doubles. HxS: 24x18in (60x45cm).