re: baby sun coreopsis

Jaime says in her post:
	For those of you that like Coreopsis and have a fondness for hot

colors, there is a low-growing Coreopsis called Baby Sun that is 
really nice.  It is of medium height and is densely covered with 
blooms all summer.  The flowers are bright yellow and have a 
small but bold dark red eye. 

	Is baby sun an annual or a perennial coreopsis?  I once grew
some annual coreopsis with lovely red centers and they were wonderful!
If it's perennial, is it the threadleaf kind rather than the standard
large-foliaged type?
	I have had some problems with the standard (not thread-leaf)
kind with solid yellow flowers.  The flowers are plentiful and
beautiful, but the plants tend to be very floppy and they are re-seeding
like crazy into the gravel walk surrounding the raised bed in full sun
where I transplanted one large plant (from our prior garden of 14 years
where the coreopsis was in part shade).
	This summer, I didn't have the heart to "weed" them (especially
when they were flowering, which is most of the time) and eventually we
had a real problem when all the seedlings in the walk got really large
and floppy and we were walking way out around that bed as a result.
	This softheartedness is a real problem overall in achieving my
gardening "good maintenance" goals.  We are "too successful" with many
perennials that self-sow, and sometimes we lose small and choice plants
as a result of crowding or we have trouble keeping edges of beds neat
and so on.
	Does anyone else have this problem?  We try to give starts to
other people, but often it's not a good time for them to take them for
planting right away, so it would mean potting them up...  I think I need
to create some kind of "holding bed" that would be super easy to stick
in pulled up volunteers and then get some inexpensive pots and keep
nearby and not let any summer visitors leave without a few potsfull!

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F×
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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