Re: autumn planting....
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  • Subject: Re: autumn planting....
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:05:52 -0500
Yes, it's a new one from Darrell Probst at Garden Vision. The only picture I've found is in his print catalogue. He's well known for his Epimediums, but in recent years he has been dabbling with Coreopsis. Previously he wholesaled his breakthrough varieties, but this one he is introducing on his own. 


From the catalog:
This beautifully colored variant is an amazing breakthrough for large flowered Coreopsis. Flowers are especially large at up to 3" across, with flowering starting early and going the distance from June until frost. In the heat of summer the flowers may open almost solid white, but for most of the season, the flowers are white flushed with varying degrees/shades of red-violet. As nights get cooler in autumn, the eyes darken and more color suffuses toward the edges of the petals. Forms a mound 18-30" tall and 24-30" wide with a somewhat open habit. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
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Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] autumn planting....



wow - sounds pretty Kitty!!  new cultivar of coreopsis?

On 7/24/10, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:


You're a better man than I, Gene Bush....
Jumping!  Would I had the energy. Actual is 93 degrees, with heat index,
it's 100.

I just came in fromlisting the plants in my little nursery.  It's time to
start making sale tags for them for my sale next month.  Found a cartful
that need to be moved up a pot size.

No fall orders for me Pam.  I way-over-bought this spring, ending up now
with one vauable Coreopsis 'Cosmic Evolution' that's still in its pot
because I don't have a good spot for it yet.  She's a happy plant but not
colorful like the pictures right now. In extreme heat she comes out white; 
cooler weather the 3in flowers are flushed red-violet.



Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Bush" <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] autumn planting....



Hope to hey you are right about the heat easing in this lifetime, Pam

I am jumping about in my garden. Weeding a bit here, doing a small
planting there. Perhaps getting rid of a plant and replacing it with
something I like better. Improving the soil before something new goes in. 
Near my rock garden I moved my birdbath and set it on a circle of
stones. Next to it a flat stone with a bronze sundial down on the soil. I 
to
weave some small asters in between the stones of the rock garden, the bird 
bath and sun dial. It is a flat creeper with starry white blooms named
Snow
Flurries. This week I also intend to work on my tall screen of perennials 
in
a raised arch along a path that I mentioned before.
Only working a couple of hours or so a morning, not much gets done. this
coming week is to be more of the same...sigh.

Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
www.munchkinnursery.com
Garden Writer - Photographer -  Lecturer




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
Of Pam Evans
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:23 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] autumn planting....
Well God help me, I just placed my fall order at High Country Gardens. 2 Grosso lavenders, 2 Kim's knee high echinaceas, 2 Eryngium 'Big Blue' (sea holly), 1 Arizona Sun gaillardia & 1 Firewitch dianthus. Most of that is for planting in chimney flue liners, pots & raised beds. One fine day it 
will be cooler here again.  LOL

Anyone making fall plans yet?   if so, what's on the agenda??

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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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Kemp TX
zone 8A

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