I received "Cherry Brandy"seeds in a swap last year. I winter sowed them and only one grew. It did terrific. Plains coreopsis self seeds.

Don

Yikes, that coreopsis is one of my nightmares!! Be so glad you are further north than me. I would be saying pull it, toss it, burn it, crush it, do whatever it takes to get rid of it now before seeds set. OH my I pull the plants each and every year, and it is like my soil has jokes. The first year I let one plant stay in one of my beds, well I just had no idea what I had done. That sucker seeds through bermuda grass, it seeds in pots 20 feet away. It seeds in trees and if the seeds don't germinate one year that is ok cause next year SURPRISE they will the next, and the next and the next. 4 years and I still have reseeds of tickseed coreopsis within a 20 foot radius of where I planted that first one.

Countrycarolyn,
It's interesting how a plant can behave so differently from one location to another. I've been growing that annual coreopsis for years and collecting seeds to resow every spring. It blooms wonderfully whenever I plant it, but I've never had it overwinter or reseed itself. Though it seems as if it should. I have verbena boniarensis reseeding like crazy.

Martha

Your cherry brandy rudbeckia is gorgeous! I WS'd a bunch this year and they were looking great until some little critter ate them down to the ground.

Docmom, that coreopsis and black eyed susans reseed very heavily for me. They go everywhere, a neighbor told me about queens anne lace doing the same thing. I love the fact that queens anne lace attracts all of the finches but if it is anything like the tickseed or black eyed susans I want no part of it. In that one bed that same year I grew the tickseed and the black eyed susans. I still have seeds germinating of both and that was 4 years ago.

I hear people more north wanting those plants and like you not having that much problem as I have had. It is weird that none reseed for you. It is almost like they are wind born. I had a clay pot sitting on my back porch and I guess some tickseed managed to blow in the pot. Well by the time I realized what it was the root busted my pot. It is a lovely flower that has a long bloom period but I want no part of it. If you need seedlings in the spring I am sure I will have plenty to share.

It looks like I'll be a OK with coreopsis in my zone. I've collected tons of seeds and I'll sow them in the spring in better places. I didn't know that it will be so tall and it ended up in front of the bed! (still love it). However, it seems that I'll be in trouble with verbena. Also planted in a wrong spot and it looks like it will stay there (reseeding).

Glad2garden- thanks, that rudabeckia was, still is, beautiful. Of course, planted also in a wrong spot, I thought it will be taller... Again, mistakes of a newbie.

"Yikes, that coreopsis is one of my nightmares!!"

I agree. it seeded all over for me. Plus the colors did not match the area I have them coming up! They are nice looking but make sure you like where they are. I pulled them all summer...

The cherry brandy I also planted from a trade and it did not come true but it was a pretty yellow and red mixed plant.

Karen

I have a dumb question. If you WS'd it from seeds, can it be sterile? I thought sterile plants could only be propagated from cuttings or divisions.

From manufactures can produce seeds of plants that will not produce viable seed. Just like hybrids. Seed companies offer hybrid seeds but when you go to collect those seeds just like the first picture of the cherry brandy rudbeckia they will not be true to the parent. I have grown hybrid dahilia's from seed before and they were beautiful I went to collect the seeds and all I gathered was chaff.

So just because you grew it from seed does not mean that it will be able to produce viable seed that is true to the parent plant.

I agree with coreopsis. They are annuals but reseeds crazy. I've removed them, don't want them anymore.