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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Gardening<br />

Local<br />

News<br />

Now<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

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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