re: baby sun coreopsis

Susan Campanini <campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 	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?

It's a perennial, Susan.  Unfortunately, it is not threadleaf.  
It's around 12 - 20" depending on sun or part-shade.  It's 
rather rambunctious behaviour is why I moved it to part-shade 
and a bit moister than it likes.  If you don't make it quite so 
happy, it will be better behaved.  

Like other annoying floppy stems, I try to use neighbors that 
will help hold them upright.  

> 	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!

I have the very same problem.  It seems cruel to just tear the 
little guys up when they are so healthy.  (except for some of 
the lunatic dianthus)  And what you describe is precisely what 
I've finally done. 

I created a raised bed in an out of the way spot in part shade 
that is my holding bed.  I use it for youngsters and divisions I 
don't have room for.  I also use it when I'm moving a lot of 
plants around and need someplace safe to put them for however 
long it takes me to do this.  It's a wonderful thing to have if, 
like me, you have a tendency to overdo things.  I'm even 
thinking about making another one.  I'm starting up way too many 
perennials this year from seed & if I end up with another 200 
foxgloves .....

It's also nice to use these holding beds to heel in things you 
are not quite ready to plant when they arrive on your doorstep.  
 :)   

Jaime
jknoble@warwick.net
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