RE: Re: Coreopsis Ruby

I deadhead mine so they rebloom, so no real chance of seeds.

Theresa

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
Behalf Of Jesse Bell
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:15 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] 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>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>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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>If you have weeds, you don't have enough plants.
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