Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Good companions?, 1 by junglebob

junglebob wrote:
well rudibeckia is akin to the brown eyed susan( not beach sunflower)...exceopt it has very fuzzy light freen leaves..it's a perenial and comes back here fine...if you can grow nasturtians there..you must have some shade...can't imagine them enduring the hot sunlight...there is no reason why a wild flower mix...at walmart or other places would not work for you...but you have to plant earlier or later in year...as you know Correopsis is the state flower and that is a wildflower and a dandy....around some of my plumies i have california marigold (really cosmos sulphureus)..it loves the heat and the cold...blue porter weed.and of course gallardia do their own thing and are a show piece