If it's based on a taste test, please allow me to go ask my deer... I didn't get to see a single bloom this year. sigh. I still grow 'Early Sunrise', so I'm sure I'm no help to you. Love those golden yellow, double blooms. Guess the deer do too.

Thanks, rob - I do like your sense of humor! Sorry about your local 'rats with hooves', as my sister calls them -- for me they have been extra pernicious this year for so many plants. Grrrr.

I have a plethora of yellow in my gardens, all year, and was hoping to find some color variety within the coreopsis group that would offer something different. I do love the paler yellows ('Full Moon" and "Moonbeam") and the brightness of 'Zagreb', which I have had for decades. But I have tried a few of the bi-colors of coreopsis in the recent past and have been disappointed that they are not reliable in returning.

Perhaps I am doomed to disappointment. Ah, well.

Roxanna, I am sorry but I never have had much luck with the hybrid coreopsis I've tried and I did try the pinks and the bi-colors. I don't even remember what the problem was, but they just didn't perform and I don't have them any more. Last year I was tempted at the nursery to bring home a coreopsis because I saw one with larger flowers that were a pale yellow. The foliage mildewed on me at the end of the season. I was so surprised but I had planted it in the garden. I bought it late, like the beginning of July so it had been sitting around the nursery for awhile. I thought for sure it wouldn't even come back this year, but so far it has come back and formed a nice neat little mound and is pushing out flower buds. Hasn't quite started flowering yet....which seems late to me. Happily not a touch of mildew so far.

But as you can see, not the color you are looking for and I haven't had it long enough to know about performance. I just thought I'd share my experience. It's called 'Uptick Cream'. I used to grow 'Early Sunrise' too and I enjoyed that. It was a real performer. I changed my growing style and the coreopsis was out for awhile. Now I'm in the mood for the mounding coreopsis. IF I can find performers, so if you do find something, please share.. :-)