Beginner Gardening: Rudbeckia "irish eyes" , 1 by HeatherY

HeatherY wrote:
Wow, Imple, I got HUGE Rudbeckia too! They got about nine feet tall in my Brooklyn NY front yard! In my plant identification thread they dubbed them " Rudbeckia on steroids"!

I had gotten the roots and a little green last year at a plant swap. They grew about two and a half feet, then vanished. There was nothing above the surface at all in the winter of 13-14. I thought they had died. Then there were stalks and some unusual leaves, they grew, they grew,
and they got to be seven feet before the first flower bud. They neighbor demanded to know what I had planted - she thought it was so going to undermine her porch foundation!

They did not, they just grew taller. One day Mom went out with her good scissors and cut some for indoors.

Mine have turned brown now and I just shook the seeds off the seed head into a lozenge tin without any difficulty.

I am in zone 7a BTW- You must be in zone 6 or even 5.