Blackeyed Susan in Winter Condition

Here is a photo of Blackeyed Susan as it winters over in my garden.  The seeds germinate in the fall and appear year after year in clumps.  I collected the seed from a pasture in Owasso in 1994 and have had them in my garden ever since.  I collect the seed every year and sow in the fall at their designated places.  The insects love the flowers and there is a special bee that collects pollen by going 'round n 'round the middle part of the flower.  I put a low cage made from hog fencing around the clump to keep them from falling over.  By the time real hot weather arrives they will have made seed that is ready to collect.