“Herbstonne,” a lanky, old-fashioned rudbeckia with droopy yellow petals around a tall green cone, is the soothsayer in my garden. When the cone starts to turn brown, I know that summer will ...

My husband first found those golden glows, an old-fashioned rudbeckia, more than 20 years ago in a clearing in our woods that had once been a homestead. Maybe it was the site of an outhouse ...