Annie's Annuals

Monrovia has it listed along with a place to check for retailers nearby. Many retailers in my state are allowing for curbside, hands off pick up of prepaid orders, and here anyway garden suppliers are considered essential because they carry food plants and seeds. You would have to check how NY is handling things.

https://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/3641/big-bang-cosmic-eye-tickseed/

I think that you may be having a difficult time finding this plant because after a lot of publicity when introduced, it wasn’t a successful plants in many if not most areas. Its developer was overly optimistic in his hardiness ratings, and it was overall fairly fussy. For instance, in Mt. Cuba’s Coreopsis trials, it didn’t winter over, and there shouldn’t have been a hardiness issue there.

Is this a hybrid using annual tinctoria genes? Are they selling it as a perennial? This sounds like what they've done with Gaillardia. I'm fine with plain tinctoria and a larger yellow coreopsis. They don't necessarily have to be combined. I tried to find the background story. Marigold, you are looking for another because the 1st plant didn't last. Not a good sign if it was supposed to be perennial.

Thank you for the feedback.

NH, I have Cosmic Eye since 6/16 and it's bloomed beautifuly, non stop, with no disease issues and importantly it's returned each year unliked all the other coreospis I've tried. I'm suprised it hasn't done well for others because it's so hardy here in NY.

I've exhausted many places but I'll definitely check Monrovia.

I didn't consider shipping charges may due to what's going on because I ordered plants from other stores and the shipping was the same.

It was easy to find back then. I wanted it last year it was listed out of stock everywhere and this year it seems to be the same thing with the exception to that one place.

Here's a photo of my

Cosmic.

Based on your photo, it seems like you may have Coreopsis “Daybreak”, from the same series, rather than “Cosmic Eye.” Check our the example photos below from Walter‘s Gardens:

Daybreak:

cosmic Eye:

Actually that's a good observation Sah, but I think it's the saturation from camera lighting and the sun because in person it looks like how Cosmic Eye should look. I did have Daybreak on the other side of my garden, it wasn't as bold but similar to the photos you've shown, also it didn't make it through the winter. I'll try to get a better shot of it since I changed my camera settings when it begins to bloom.

Although it was seeming to be unlikely I'd find a place to purchase Cosmic Eye, I kept trying. I'm very pleased with my order from Perennial Farm Marketplace. I was able to get Cosmic Eye in a trade gallon for $14.95. The plant is a nice size and healthy.

Sah67, I wanted to come back to this thread because your were absolutely right! It was DaybreakI When I finally found Cosmic Eye and it began to bloom I saw the difference. I make a journal and the locations where I plant things and I was so sure that my notes were accurate, but I was wrong! I also went and bought another Daybreak and I hope Cosmic Eye survives this time! Thank you.