The Star: October 19, 2017
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Gardening<br />
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Easy care and colour with coreopsis<br />
• By Henri Ham<br />
COREOPSIS ARE a fantastic<br />
plant to grow at this time of<br />
year.<br />
Planted now, they will thrive<br />
in the summer sun – which,<br />
fingers crossed, should arrive at<br />
some point.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir love of the sun makes<br />
them super easy-care. Once<br />
planted, unless there’s a<br />
drought, they don’t need much<br />
watering at all.<br />
Three varieties which<br />
produce, bright, yellow, sunny<br />
flowers are early sunrise, rising<br />
sun and sunburst.<br />
Early sunrise has green leaves<br />
with golden-yellow, semidouble<br />
flowers. Rising sun<br />
produces double golden-yellow<br />
flowers with red eyes. Sunburst<br />
also produces golden-yellow,<br />
semi-double and double flowers.<br />
All three make great borders<br />
and lovely cut flowers.<br />
Once you’ve got your plants,<br />
be sure to grow them in the<br />
sunniest spot in your garden<br />
around 40-50cm apart.<br />
Give them a light watering<br />
and then let them do their<br />
thing.<br />
When they start flowering<br />
BRIGHT: Early sunrise has golden-yellow, semi-double flowers.<br />
be sure to deadhead (remove<br />
the dead flower heads) to encourage<br />
them to keep producing<br />
flowers.<br />
And in late summer you can<br />
either leave them to do their<br />
thing or cut them back by<br />
one-third to get them flowering<br />
again.<br />
Not all varieties of coreopsis<br />
are perennials, but many are,<br />
so every two to three years in<br />
early spring you can dig up the<br />
plants, divide them and expand<br />
your garden.<br />
BOLD: Sunburst (top) produces double<br />
and semi-double flowers. Rising<br />
sun (above) has red eyes.<br />
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