Re: Re: Coreopsis Ruby

Ya know...you're right, as usual. I thought about that after I sent the e-mail. That was when I lived in Dallas....they do really well down there. I have not planted them up here...because they took over my garden down there. Zone difference for sure.

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6



From: Kitty <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Coreopsis Ruby
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:10:17 -0500 (EST)

Jesse
That may be a difference in hardiness zones. I have seen a tickseed
seedling on occasion, but not often, and I grow several different types.
The prairie type, C.tripteris, seems to spread more by runners than
seed. The lanceleaf and other garden types with regular leaves like
Domino and Sunray throw off the rare seedling, and the threadleaf types
like C.verticillata and C.rosea seem also to just spread out from their
own base; I haven't seen seedlings - or perhaps didn't recognize them.


Though Limerock Ruby and Sweet Dreams appear to be related, they come
from different threadleaf parentage - one to verticillata and the other
to rosea, (still, both are hybrids and other species are involved in
their heritage, but each of these is primarily, or most closely, related
to one or the other species)

My Sweet Dreams plants from last year are coming back sparsely, but they
did survive, whereas neither of my Rubies show any sign of ever having
been there at all, other than some perlite from their original pot still
in the planting hole. And no seedlings from either of them at all, nor
from other threadleafs - C.vert. Moonbeam, or C.rosea.

Lucky you.

Kitty

-------Original Message-------
From: Jesse Bell <jesserenebell@hotmail.com>
Sent: 06/16/03 10:00 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Coreopsis Ruby

>
> It doesn't self-seed? Man, the coreopsis that I have planted in the past
self-seeded like crazy...almost obnoxiously. I've seen it in my gardening

catalogs and it looks beautiful!!! I'd like to try it too.

Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6



>From: Kitty <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: [CHAT] Coreopsis Ruby
>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:47:44 -0500 (EST)
>
>Did we discuss Coreopsis 'Limerock Ruby' recently? A friend told me she
>just found this recently and I explained that it's now being sold as an
>annual - at least here in Z5/6 - because it doesn't come back. I had 2
>last yr and neither one did. Nor did anyone else's. Fortunately, the
>price has come down. Lowes: $3.74 for a nice dense gallon already cut
>back to provide thicker growth. For that price, I bought it knowing it
>won't be back. But last yr I paid $12.95. My friend paid $6.95 - not too
>happy about it for an annual.
>
>Did any of you have Limerock Ruby return?
>Kitty
>
>
>If you have weeds, you don't have enough plants.
>
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