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Coreopsis question
Hi ! I have 3 Coreopsis plants ( pink , yellow and a variegated
yellow)Their names escape me . Do I have to cut them back in fall or spring ?? Thanks ! Rosie z5 |
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Coreopsis question
Moonbeam? If so, do you mean cut off the dead stuff? I do so in early
Spring. I never cut my Moonbeams back otherwise. Cheryl (Z5 as well) "rosemarie face" wrote in message ... Hi ! I have 3 Coreopsis plants ( pink , yellow and a variegated yellow)Their names escape me . Do I have to cut them back in fall or spring ?? Thanks ! Rosie z5 |
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Sure, why not?
Its kind of late for spring, don't you think so? Its more a choice of aesthetics than season. rosemarie face wrote in message ... Hi ! I have 3 Coreopsis plants ( pink , yellow and a variegated yellow)Their names escape me . Do I have to cut them back in fall or spring ?? Thanks ! Rosie z5 |
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pink is Rosea, yellow could be either Zagreb, moonbeam (which is the thread
leaf variety like the Rosea) or Toto a miniature variety and the variegated is Tequila Sunrise if it has a gathered flower with reddish center in the throat. There are two varieties of coreopsis, the thread leaf kind and the lance leaf larger variety which is also called "tick seed" because the seeds look like seed ticks......there is a wild variety that is the tick seed and it grows along side roads and reseeds with happy abandon. the more perennial varieties are those I spoke of including two new introductions in the thread leaf world called Sweet dreams which has huge flowers of pinkish edging and dark burgandy eyes and Limrock Ruby which is all burgandy with huge flowers. I have discovered the success of all these thread leaf varieties including the Rosea, Moonbeam, Limrock and Sweet Dreams is excellent drainage. Even to the point of putting pea gravel in with the soil to make good drainage. The debate on Limrock and Sweet coming back as perennials depends on the drainage as they HATE soggy feet in winter. (same as Rosea the parent cross plant) The Moonbeam is hard as nails and loves heat, but all those thread leaf varieties can be trimmed up in spring. Allen Armatage insists on it. He said if you trim the Limrock Ruby, Sweet Dreams and other thread leaf varieties in spring time after they break dormancy and get about a foot tall you will have more flowers and a less floppy plant. The lance leaf larger variety I wouldn't cut back, but allow in the late summer to drop those spent seedheads to ensure return from daughters in case the plant melts during winter. Deadheading helps with Tequila Sunrise to make more flowers about 7 weeks after the first strong flush as it's totally different from the others as it's varigated. I hope this helps. And before someone flames me about the Limrock and Sweet and Tequila varieties, I speak from experience. I HAVE ALL of these plants, lost the thread leaf ones before I realized I had to give excellent drainage (they also hate rich soil unless it's real compost), didn't have them return because of the drainage and too rich soil thing, dead headed the tickseed ones and didn't give opportunity to reseed, and didn't clean the Tequila one enough to get the second and third bloom. The newer ones ARE perennial up to zone 4 if you follow the drainage thing and cutting them back in spring after they're a foot tall............. madgardener up on the ridge, back in fairy holler, home from work due to heat exhaustion and borderline heat stroke yesterday, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 "rosemarie face" wrote in message ... Hi ! I have 3 Coreopsis plants ( pink , yellow and a variegated yellow)Their names escape me . Do I have to cut them back in fall or spring ?? Thanks ! Rosie z5 |
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Thanks a lot everyone ! This really helps . I've been gardening for
about six years now (since I moved here from Germany), but still consider myself a newbie . So much to learn ... but I love it ! Madgardener, I hope you have recuperated and are feeling better !!! I really enjoy your posts !! If you don't mind I will ask you a few more questions here and there . Do you have a homepage for your gardenpics? I would really love to see your garden ! Rosie z5 IN |
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"rosemarie face" wrote in message ... Thanks a lot everyone ! This really helps . I've been gardening for about six years now (since I moved here from Germany), but still consider myself a newbie . So much to learn ... but I love it ! Madgardener, I hope you have recuperated and are feeling better !!! I really enjoy your posts !! If you don't mind I will ask you a few more questions here and there . Do you have a homepage for your gardenpics? I would really love to see your garden ! Rosie z5 IN you can ask me as many questions as you need to sugar. I feel much better. I couldn't go in to work yesterday I was so ill from the heat. I'm getting too old to be out in this stuff (yeah, at the tender age of 50) but when the heat is in the upper 90's and the humidity makes it feel like it's over 103o.........and you lose huge amounts of sweat, you're losing valuable minerals and electrolites and potassium.....it kicked my butt......but better today, and back out in the heat and humidity and on the concrete today but I paced myself, went inside alot to cool off, soaked my head, soaked my hat, hosed down my arms..... I don't have a homepage for my pics but if you wanna holler my way I can send you two or three at a time and you can delete them after you look at them. Thanks for the kind words, Rosie....I appreciate every gardener who enjoys a good ramble and garden tour. GBSEG my e-mail is the same as it appears here......... madgardener up on the sticky and hot ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking a blue English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 |
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