BLU'S FARM

08/23/2026

I made this vase today for myself.

The yellow and white with the burgundy 🥵🔥✨

08/23/2026

I love filling this up for Mom! These Dahlia 😍😍😍

08/15/2026

Ours look fantastic right now!!! If you want black-eyed susan’s in your space, come and get some!

Your garden looks tired in August.

The spring flowers are done. The annuals are leggy. The roses have black spot. Everything looks like it gave up.

Except me.

I'm Rudbeckia hirta — the black-eyed Susan — and August is MY month.

I'm peaking right now. Bright golden petals. Dark chocolate centers. And I'll keep going until frost.

No other flower gives you this much for this little effort:
→ Native to every state east of the Rockies
→ Drought-tolerant once established
→ Self-seeds reliably — plant once, have forever
→ Blooms for 8-10 weeks (most perennials give you 2-3)
→ Grows in poor soil, clay, sand — doesn't care
→ Full sun to partial shade
→ Deer don't eat me
→ Disease resistant
→ $3 seed packet = infinite flowers

What I support:
→ 40+ species of native bees
→ Butterflies including monarchs, painted ladies, and skippers
→ Goldfinches eat my seed heads in fall
→ Beneficial insects use me as habitat
→ I'm a host plant for silvery checkerspot butterfly caterpillars

Garden design secret: mass-plant me.

One black-eyed Susan is pretty. Fifty black-eyed Susans stop traffic.

A drift of golden Rudbeckia in August is one of the most stunning, lowest-maintenance displays in American gardening. And it feeds an entire ecosystem while it's at it.

$3. Zero maintenance. 10 weeks of blooms. Free forever after.

Please explain to me why every yard doesn't have these.

Share this for the native flower that outworks everything in the garden center. 🌻

08/08/2026

$5 flowers! Come and get them! Perfect for your table or as a 💝

08/08/2026

08/01/2026

Dividing Amaryllis today! They are huge!!!

07/31/2026

There’s something about putting all this beauty into a couple jars that words just can’t describe 🥰