Oh, thank you!!! I was going to save the seeds of the rudbeckia, but I wanted to have the right name! I have loved this plant this year. It has stayed in bloom all summer it seems like. Dee, it is two toned. I love that look. It sounds like the polygonum id is unanimous as well. I'll yank it! I had never seen it before. The section where it showed up I have had so much problem with. I should have known if it was thriving it was a weed! :) Lisa

I know the feeling of thinking all the pests in the neighborhood are in your garden! I don't know what might be the reason that the eggs and cats are placed as they are. Either way, good luck raising your little ones! -Jmcat

This is a toughie. One of my fav combos. Champagne Elegance is probably most distributed. But here are other names. Fondation Van Gogh - Ambrosia Delight - Ambrosia Fool - Apricot Frosty - Aztec Burst - Betty Dunn - Border Guard BB - But Beautiful - Champagne Encore - Champagne Frost - Chateau d'Auvers Sur Oise cayeux03 - Cloudless Sunrise - Color Bash - Cookie Combo 01 - Coral Beauty - Coral Cheeks - Coral Peaks - Coral Srand - Design In Canteloupe BB - Douce Reverie white edges - Easter Cloud roberts95 RE - Festive Skirt - Forgiven ernst'94 rimmed light - June Sunset 80 - Just Teasing - Magharee - Milk On Apricots niswonger00 - Opal Brown meek'96 - Orange Portal kerr07 - Peach Melba (tan-apric solid fall) - Pom Pom Girl miller'98 - Royal Honey - Shurton Inn bartlett'94 - Sonja's Selah

Now that I see the close-up I am tempted not to post any guesses. But it will at least let you rule out some (and maybe tempt somebody) so here goes: The biggest problem with this color is cameras. Hopeless inaccuracy with some. So take these names with a big grain of salt as I've never grown any in this color range. And there are probably many more. Rims (to me) means a consistant width of a contrasting color. Might be same as standards. Picotee can be uneven and thinner than rims. Wire the thinnest of all. (but yours just lightens toward the edges) VIOLET ORCH / DEEP VIOLET Accessible, irreg picotee ghio'08 - Double Agent, wire rim - Haunting Mystery, powell'83 - Made of Magic, B.ends purplish, schrein'04 - Night Attack, ghio HM95 only one pic - Noble Contessa, picotee edge - Romantic Evening, no rim - Royal Family, vy ruff - Scarlet Embers, med rim - Sooner Serenade, med rim - Swordsman, vy ruff blyth'04 - Visiting Royalty, edge lightens ghio'00