Re: Floppy moonbeams

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: Floppy moonbeams
• From: D* <d*@ma.ultranet.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:32:48 -0400
• References: <970912143334_434864648@emout17.mail.aol.com>

Moonbeam coreopsis are sterile, so shearing does not cause more bloom.
These plants need to be divided nearly every year for optimal bloom -
this could be why you got lots of foliage and not many flowers.  I would
divide them now - they are simple to do - they just pull apart, cut the
foliage to a few inches, plant the divisions nearly a foot apart, and
I'll bet you be pleased with them next year.

Deb
Zone 6


Dodgrs4me@aol.com wrote:

>  Happy Friday!
>    In the fall of 95 I planted 3 4inch Moonbeam Coreopsis in my
> border.They
> performed so well in the 96 season, I was ready to put them on my
> top-ten
> must have list. They died back to the ground over winter, and came up
> just
> fine this year
> but failed miserably to  repeat the 96 show. All three looked nice and
> green,
> but they
> reclined lazily on the ground with a bad hair part down the middle and
>
> bloomed
> very little. Has anyone experienced this? Is there some sort of
> haircut
> regimen I should have performed???
>                     Kathy in the Napa Valley , USDA zone 9 (this year
> anyway)
>                      Sunset zone 14
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