chocolate cosmos see my pics

It's perennial, but not hardy :-(

Are you sure? The flowers look too big to be the Cosmos. I reckon it could be a Rudbeckia hirta.

or rudbeckia cherry brandy.

Yes, exactly. :-)

I think rudbeckia too. petals are the wrong shape for cosmos.

I agree ,almost certainly a Rudbeckia

I vote for Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy' also. Chocolate Cosmos has compound leaves, smaller flowers with a proportionately smaller center, and fewer leaves on the flower stem.

Me too, for Cherry Brandy. The flower, that is. It's a little early for a tipple!

Surely the sun is over the yardarm somewhere in the Commonwealth! : D