This long-blooming native plant flowers from summer to frost Reviewed by Kathleen Miller If you're looking for a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, long-blooming flower to fill a bed, create a ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Tall coreopsis, (Coreopsis tripteris), is a beautiful ...

It’s time to consider coreopsis. No garden should be without it. I thought of it after receiving a photo taken by Linda Vaningen that featured coreopsis flowering prolifically, the result of ...

Spring is in full bloom, but if your garden is looking a little empty right now and you’re after easy ways to fill the gaps that won’t cost a fortune, then sowing your own perennial plants from seed ...

Amid the seasonal scruffiness, there are signs of life in our garden. The giant coreopsis, which was looking seriously dead, has decided to leaf out. Although it's not supposed to get summer water, we ...

Growth habit: An upright, often long-lived annual growing to 3 feet tall and wide. The leaves are bright green and linear, growing to 8 inches long and a half-inch wide. Light: Plant in full sun to ...