(Coreopsis, Hybrid Tickseed)

This hybrid tickseed, ‘Redshift’, is an herbaceous perennial with flower petals that change color based on seasonal temperatures. Created by Darrell Probst in Massachusetts, its flowers are larger in size than most tickseeds as well. Bloom starts in early summer and continues until frost. By midsummer, the plant is a tall clump of lacy green leaves and hundreds of flowers that have a burgundy-red central disk surrounded by light yellow petals. Butterflies and bees frequent the flowers every chance...

(Coreopsis)

You may first think you're looking at a cosmos as Ruby Frost tickseed's flowers jet out at curious, jagged angles above the foliage. An herbaceous perennial selected by Terra Nova Nurseries of Canby, Oregon, 'Ruby Frost' is a large rounded cultivar. Its deep red petals are edged in white around a gold-tipped dark red disk, attracting butterflies and bees. Promptly trimming away old flowers encourages repeated flowering across summer.

Plant 'Ruby Frost' in a well-draining moist to slightly dry...

(Coreopsis, Hybrid Tickseed)

Snowberry tickseed is an exceptional hybrid perennial that boasts a pretty display of white and red blossoms with golden eyes. In summer, handsomely mounded plants with deeply divided dark green or bluish green foliage yield hundreds of eight-petaled, creamy white and merlot-red flowers with orange-gold central discs. Butterflies and bees with dance around the flowers every chance they get, but these flowers will not set seed.

Like most Coreopsis, these do best in sites with full to...

(Coreopsis)

Compact yellow-green feathery foliage topped with vibrant magenta-crimson flowers makes Strawberry Lemonade tickseed stunning! An herbaceous perennial selected by Terra Nova Nurseries of Canby, Oregon, 'Strawberry Lemonade' is a dwarf cultivar with limited winter cold tolerance. Early to bloom and continuously flowering in summer, the magenta-red to crimson petals surround a dark orange-red disk, attracting butterflies and bees. Promptly trimming off spent flowers promotes new flushes of flowers...

(Coreopsis, Hybrid Tickseed, Tequila Sunrise Tickseed)

Tequila Sunrise tickseed is an attractive perennial that has unique, narrow, variegated leaves striped with yellow and green. This compact plant produces many bright yellow daisies with dark crimson centers that stand above the foliage. They bloom throughout much of the growing season, but bloom best if spent flowers are removed.

Unlike other coreopsis, ‘Tequila Sunrise’ does well in poor, sandy or rocky soils and will also tolerate heat and moderate drought. This sun-loving perennial is well...

(Coreopsis)

Image the warm, vivid color of a guava's flesh on a tickseed with yellow foliage and you have 'Tropical Lemonade'. An herbaceous perennial selected by Terra Nova Nurseries of Canby, Oregon, this is a dwarf cultivar with limited winter cold tolerance. Continuously flowering in summer, the coral-orange petals surround a dark orange-red disk, attracting butterflies and bees. Promptly trimming off spent flowers promotes new flushes of flowers until earliest fall. The leaves are golden-green, but have...

(Coreopsis, Hybrid Tickseed)

Plants in the Big Bang Series are very showy, tough and hardy perennials, truly living up to the name in the landscape. The result of a string of complex hybrids developed by breeder Darrell Probst, they are upright perennials that flower profusely in a wide range of more unique colors for tickseeds. From midsummer to late fall or frost there will be repeated flushes of flowers, and plants will have finest continued blooming if spent flowers are removed after the heav initial flowering.

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(Coreopsis, Hybrid Tickseed)

Plants in the Limerock Series are very showy, short-lived perennials. In summer, they produce tidy mounded plants, with deeply divided medium green foliage, and put forth many pretty daisies of cream, dark rose pink and ruby red. Plants will continue blooming if their spent flowers are removed.

Like most Coreopsis, these do best in sites with full to part sun and well drained, average soil. They make great additions to sunny perennial borders and containers, and their flowers are highly...

(Lobed Coreopsis)

Lobed tickseed is a tall, perennial that spreads slowly by rhizomes. This native of the southeastern United States has soft, medium green foliage and puts forth tall stems topped with single golden daisies in early to midsummer. Bloom time will be extended if spent flowers are removed. This heat tolerant perennial does best in sites with full sun and fertile soil. They are well suited to wildflower gardens and informal perennial borders.

(Autumn Blush Tickseed, Lobed Coreopsis, Lobed Tickseed)

The coreopsis cultivar, ‘Autumn Blush,’ descended from an herbaceous perennial native to the southeastern U.S., has bi-colored petals and long bloom The plant is rhizomatous (spreads by underground stems) and upright leafy branching stems that bloom in late spring to early fall with a profusion of flowers that are a light peachy yellow with read centers. The flowers develop a wine-rose blush in the cool days of fall.

Like most coreopsis, ‘Autumn Blush’ grows and flowers best in full to part sun...