Do you cut yours down to the basal crown when you deadhead yours. I don't think I've had them to reseed for me but maybe I just haven't noticed. I still have a bag of seeds from last year's harvest. Do you think they are any good now. I'd love to start some perennial seeds this week to take to the Sept. 15th. plant swap but don't know if they will germinate and have enough growth on them to be presentable/desirable. I have some that I started last year that are good size, maybe I will pot them up and take them. They are blooming now so how would I manage that? I can repot them. Do I just cut off their plumes and repot them, put a marker in the pot?
I also have cherry brandy rudbeckia that I want to pot up and take. It is blooming now too, should I dig that up and transplant it now so it can get over transplant shock? Same way with burgundy gaillardia? The liatris was sent to me by a gardening friend in Indiana originally so I'll have to ask her which variety it is. Which coneflowers are those in your picture you posted? I have tall coneflowers and I bought 3 Pow Wow Berry coneflowers but are looking for Kim's knee high variety to replace the 4 ft. plus tall ones I have. I just cut them back last week because they had faded so bad and had been flattened back at the end of June in that bad storm. They never bounced back. I'm going to offer them to somebody but they have to come and get them. I won't have room for them in the car for the plant swap.
