Helenium Tip Top...

It's a cracker! Why would you need to treat it as an annual, can I ask - I hope you don't mind me being nosy :)

I like what scottish said...A CRACKER!!

We have had plants survive which I didn't think would Angela it's all down to the winters ..

Scottish we never seem to do well with Heleniums or Rudbeckias (except for the giant Herbstonne) always die
on us after a couple of years, no idea why?
Amy I know we get a lot of rain in the south, so perhaps they do like the wet perhaps?
Thanks MaryB.....

Thanks - I find the Rudbeckias suffer in the wet here in winter but my Helenium Moerheim Beauty thrives in it!
I read somewhere once, but can't remember where, that Heleniums can often be very slow to get going in spring and the advice was to give them a good soak but found I've never needed to.

This is really lovely Dd..I think 'Herbstonne' & 'Goldrturm' are the only ones we can treat as perennials?..:>)

Motty it is a nice one, I shall be sad to lose it, Herbstonne at the moment is huge, never know it to be so big so early...