At last a Tortoiseshell butterfly in the garden. Three or four there yesterday. Maybe the Rudbekia which has just begun to flower attrected them.Rudbeckia is there a few years now, perennial, needs very little care, gives spectacular late summer colour. This flower it seems is named after Linnaeus' teacher. It, or one of its varieties, is sometimes called Black Eyed Susan. Bob Dylan has a song Moonlight which contains the lines:
The dusky light, the day is losing
Orchids, poppies, black-eyed Susan
The earth and sky that melts with flesh and bone
Won't you meet me out in the moonlight alone?
Someone called Morrisey has a song called Black-Eyed Susan also.
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