Versatile Landscaping

Adding Cherokee Sunset’s bold, colorful blooms to garden beds or borders elevates any outdoor space. These rudbeckia seeds thrive in full sun, offering low-maintenance beauty and visual interest that complements diverse landscaping styles with warm, textured flowers.

Cut Flower Potential

Layered, vibrant petals from Cherokee Sunset rudbeckia seeds make this plant ideal for floral arrangements. These blooms add warmth to bouquets, offering charm and seasonal color. With long-lasting freshness, Cherokee Sunset flower seeds provide captivating displays for both garden and vase.

Natural Beauty

Cherokee Sunset offers a striking mix of rose, yellow, and bronze hues, creating a bold statement in gardens. These rudbeckia seeds grow into richly colored, textured blooms that add depth and elegance, making them an eye-catching feature in any outdoor setting.

Nature's Nourishment

Attracting butterflies and beneficial insects, Cherokee Sunset supports local ecosystems. These blooms from rudbeckia seeds offer essential nourishment, creating a pollinator-friendly environment that enhances biodiversity and brings seasonal life to the garden.

Rudbeckia (Rudbeckia Hirta Cherokee Sunset) - Large 4 to 5 inch double flowers in a range of brilliant colors of orange, golden yellow, bronze, chocolate, and various bicolors are produced all summer long. Plants produce mostly double blooms and some singles and semidoubles. Tender perennial in USDA Zones 9 - 10. Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset makes an excellent cut flower. Also use this popular xeriscape garden flower for beds, pots, back of borders, or wild, meadow, and cottage garden. Deadhead for more flowers and mulch to conserve soil moisture during high summer. May overwinter in zones 5 - 8, but most often grown as an annual colder climates.

How To Grow Rudbeckia From Seed: Sow Rudbeckia seeds outdoors in the spring after the danger of frost has passed. Prepare soil by loosening the top 1 - 2 inches and removing any weeds. Sow the seeds into the loosened soil and rake in. Walk over the area to gently press the flower seeds into the soil. Keep the flower seeds moist until germination. The plants transplant well and should be spaced 12 - 18 inches apart. They form a clump that will reach 12 inches in width or more. Rudbeckia Flower Care: Deadheading prolongs the bloom season, but they will re-seed themselves readily if you leave a few blooms to go to seed. Watch for seedlings in subsequent years. Established plants are drought tolerant and perfect for xeriscaping.

2002 AAS Flower Winner. This Rudbeckia hirta contains a blend of sunset colors; yellow, orange, bronze, mahogany and shades of these colors. The 4 to 5 inch flowers are double or semi-double and long lasting as cut flowers. Best when grown in the full sun, Cherokee Sunset plants are about 24 to 30 inches tall, spreading about a foot. Many plants are self-supporting and others may need staking. Cherokee Sunset offers gardeners a blend of autumn colors and late season garden performance. Flowering profusely the first year, Cherokee Sunset may over-winter in northern gardens.