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Tue, Sep 13, 11 at 14:53
| I am cleaning out beds and came upon my coreopsis. It has reseeded tons. So my question is do I treat the plant as an annual and jerk it out or do I leave as is. What do folks in the colder areas do? Thanks |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, Sep 13, 11 at 15:09
| i ignore mine in my z5 ... i dont understand your question???? if there is too much.. pull out excess if you are happy with it.. leave it.. am i missing something??? ken PS: mine is moonbeam.. and it multiplies by underground runners.. it has never seeded that i know.. i just pull out what encroaches on other things.. and otherwise let it ramble around the bed .... otherwise.. perhaps we need to know what coreopsis you are talking about. .. |
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| One thing Moonbeam likes to do best in my garden is to die as quickly as possible.Have tried it at least twice. I don't even recall whether it lived beyond the summer. Strange, cause the species has lived here for more than twenty years. |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 5b/6a N CT (My Page) on Tue, Sep 13, 11 at 16:43
| I've also given up on Moonbeam altho' I think it's the prettiest one out there. I can't keep it alive and I'm tired of spending limited garden funds replacing it year after year. It's sterile so the seeds won't germinate which makes winter sowing it a dead end (pun intended). Zagreb is a stronger yellow but it's an amazing performer so I've resigned myself to just dividing that and planting it around the garden. |
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- Posted by hostaholic2 zone 4 MN (My Page) on Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 10:03
| Since her coreopsis has re-seeded I'm guessing it's not one of the threadleaf varieties. I no longer grow any of the other varieties but when I did I left them over winter. If more plants than I wanted survived the winter I dug them out, moved, gave away etc. the extras in spring. |
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