Re: Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'
- Subject: Re: Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:14:48 EDT
In a message dated 8/15/01 1:43:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
lindsey@mallorn.com writes:
<< I've also had horrendous luck with 'Moonbeam' here in E. Central Illinois
and up in the suburbs of Chicago. If I plant it in shadier sites the
plant doesn't bloom much and eventually dies back, but in sunnier locations
it dries out and only sends up a couple of sprigs. Most plants haven't
lasted more than a year for me... >>
Shame on Moonbeam. Try spring division with water soluble fertilizer to push
it along. Moonbeam does not bloom here until mid-July and remain in blooms
until frost. True, it is always listed as a zeric plant but spring watering
is necessary to form flowering shoots. A much stronger and lower care plant
is Golden Showers. Golden Showers does not bloom for a long season. About
three weeks and it is done. Zagreb is good too but shorter than Moonbeam.
All three bloom on the compost pile here, I wonder why they are not happy in
the midwest. Coreopsis is a full sun plant.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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