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Your current favourite coreopsis?
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rouge21 5b (
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Fri, Jun 22, 12 at 22:28
| I know I am a bit too early for some hardiness zones (zone 5 and 'colder'?) but for many it is around now that your coreopsis plants will have made their debut for 2012.
Looking at these criteria what is your personal fave:
- beauty of flower
- ability to stay UPRIGHT i.e. little or no 'flop'
(- duration of flowering (of course it is too soon to judge this for any new coreopsis you may have planted))
I admit not all my Coreopsis have opened up but for me based on last year's performance it is Cosmic Eye.
I am looking forward to seeing "Star Cluster" and "Cosmic Evolution" do their 'stuff'.
(Heaven's Gate was over rated i.e. total floppy...I am surprised it survived the winter...here comes the shovel to make room for coreopsis 'Presto').
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| My 'Star Cluster' just started blooming and is upright. It's my favorite. Cameron |
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| Thanks for that info Cameron. I have something to look forward to. (I see you are in Z7...did you plant "SC" last year or has it been in the ground just this spring?) |
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| The pictures of Cranberry Ice look spectacular. Anyone growing that? |
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| Yes a2zmom the flower does look outstanding but I see that Terra Nova describes it as having an "...informal mounding habit...". To me that is just a nice way of saying it flops? As well it is listed a hardy to Zone 6 which might mean zone 7...so it would likely be an annual for me. |
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| My favorites are: Creme Brulee
Sienna Sunset
Route 66
Jethro Tull I just got Cosmic Eye on sale for 2 dollars! It has buds. Can't wait! |
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| echinaceamaniac, you are in for a treat with "CE". Get it in the ground and you will get a good 'crop' of blooms this summer. (Dont you find that some of the favourites you have listed arent self supporting?) |
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| They seem ok to me. I have them mixed in with other plants like Echinaceas. Maybe they are all supporting each other in a way. The ones I listed are winter hardy here and loaded with blooms for months. |
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| 'baby sun'--beautiful mounding plant that so far has behaved and stayed very neat despite an extremely hard downpour with very strong winds (that blew a neighbour's gazebo into our yard) |
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| Route 66, it's the only one I've had so far that hasn't flopped, even with other plants leaning on it and having had heavy rainfall. Karen |
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| Both of the 'Cosmic Eye' Coreopsis I bought last year died out. Now that I think of it, all the ones we overwintered at the nursery died too, lol. I'm still loving 'Sienna Sunset' (although it IS kinda' floppy), which has overwintered several years now. 'Route 66' came back nicely, which is nice since I fell in love with it soon after buying it last year. It has such an awesome/unusual coloration, prolific blooming, and wasn't floppy!
CMK |
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I plucked a few seed heads from a plant I saw of route 66. Is it a hybrid?
It's very pretty. |
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| I just picked up 'Sienna Sunset' this spring and it is blooming. It really took it's time to start and it ended up with an unexpected patch of annual Nicotiana Lime in front of it, that I didn't expect. It does seem to be floppy but I will need to see what it does next year and I will move it closer to an edge in the spring. |
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| Oh my moonbeam coreopsis by far...it has bloomed and grown happily even in this drought...altho it gets deluged when it does rain. It's popping out from under a big lily so it does have only leaning to do. I should divide it and spread it around; it's sooo pretty. My Zagrebs form a line under the back living room windows and they just grow and grow too, covered with gold flowers, I cut 'em back and they bloom again. Started out with 5 plants 4 years ago, now I have a short hedge there...pretty vision thru the slider window. |
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| I think 'Route 66' is my favorite, but I really like the light yellow of my first-year 'Galaxy.' It is similar to 'Creme Brulee.' It stretches, but it doesn't flop. It has been blooming non-stop since June. |
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| Sienna Sunset I love it because of the orange color. This time of year I have enough yellow and it does not flop but it is in full blazing sun all day |
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| they hate our english (ahem) 'summers' - I photographed the latest mistakes in an effort to finally break my eternal optimism that there is a truly great coreopsis WHICH WILL RETURN. So far, I must have tried over a dozen, from good old Sterntaler to the terra nova risk jobs - a miserable fail for me. If I start to get all hopeful, I must repeat Big Sky echinacea, over and over again, until sanity returns. |
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