| There's a black-eyed Susan and a brown-eyed Susan and both are as pretty as can be. The brown-eyed version, Rudbeckia triloba, is a native Virginia wildflower you see flowering in July, says Helen Hamilton, president of the John Clayton Chapter, Virginia Native Plant Society. It's distinguished from its close relative by smaller, more numerous flowers with shorter and fewer rays, or the tightly packed disk of florets that make up the flower's "eye." Read more: | |
| Brown-eyed Susan is a native of Virginia - dailypress.com Source: dailypress.com | |
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Brown-eyed Susan is a native of Virginia - dailypress.com
The Goochland Gazette - Hargroves named to national garden club post
| By Ken Odor news@goochlandgazette.com Manakin-Sabot resident Nancy Hargroves grew up in Franklin, Va. where her father was a truck farmer and her grandmother owned a florist shop. So it's easy to understand how she developed an interest in horticulture that has propelled her into prominence in the National Garden Clubs Inc. (NGC) organization. In May she was installed as the group's fourth vice president at their annual convention in St. Louis. Read more: | |
| The Goochland Gazette - Serving Goochland County Since 1955 Source: goochlandgazette.com | |
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