Well, that’s what I think they are, but I didn’t plant them. And it was way too early to knock at the cottage door to enquire.
They grow in such a splendid jumble that it can be hard to get just one in the frame.
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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2024 Nov 29
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Sun Dogs
- DiscoveriaWhen freezing winds have claimed the sky
suspending ice within the air,
a curious sight may greet the eye:
two lights beside the sun's bright eye.A sun dog, mock sun, phantom sun:
bright spots of light on either side
as if there isn't only one
but two stars by the centre one.You'll see them when the sun sits low
upon the land; when morning comes,
against the sunrise they may glow,
or fade into the sunset's glow.So marvel at the triple sun -
the radiant parhelion.Posted: 2024 Nov 29
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Nice !
Ralph – Thanks!
Question: why are they called “black-eyed” when your photos clearly show that they are brown-eyed?
Jim T
Jim – Well, Wiki says this: Rudbeckia hirta is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, English bull’s eye, poor-land daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye daisy. So there appears to have been “extensive breeding” that has affected the colour of the petals and the centre, and no one bothered to standardize the name change.
Nicely exposed and composed
Thanks, Jim.