Coreopsis Seeds

Beautiful Coreopsis flowers attract butterflies to the garden. The flowers are usually yellow in color with a toothed tip flower heads. The fruits look like bugs. Read more on Growing Coreopsis

How to grow Coreopsis from Seeds:

Introduction and Uses: Beautiful annual with bright golden yellow flowers, and the center contrasting with petals. It is a hardy plant that can tolerate a broad range of climatic conditions.

Coreopsis is suitable for flower beds, roadside bedding, background borders and cut flowers. It is planted in the butterfly garden as a nectar plant.

Botanical Name: Coreopsis sp.

Common Name: Calliopsis, Tickseed

Family: Asteraceae

Plant Origin: North America

Propagation Method: Seed sowing and transplantation

Flowering/ Growing Season: Throughout the year

Sunlight Requirement: Full sunlight (6-8 hours)

Plant Height: 60-90 cm

Growing Method of Coreopsis:

Seeds are sown in January-February for summer, June-July for monsoon and September-October for winter flowering.

Seeds are sown thinly in nursery beds/ seed pans/seedling trays.

Fine sandy soil is required for seedbed (Outdoors), or coco peat is used as sowing medium for seedling trays (Indoors).

Before sowing the seeds, soil/coco peat should be made slightly moist.

Immediately after planting the seeds, water with a fine rose-can.

Allow the seedlings to grow on seedbeds/trays, in semi shade.

Transplant the seedlings are in pots or flower beds after about a month.

Transplant the seedlings in high-quality rich soil or potting mixture.

Planting Distance: A spacing of 30-45 cm is fine. The plant can be grown in 12-inch pot.

Watering: The plant is drought resistant. Frequent light watering is recommended. Buy watering can online.

Feeding: Fresh compost should be added to soil at the time of planting. Apply liquid cow dung manure with vermicompost every 15 days.

Plant care: Plant doesn't need too much attention as it does not attract too many diseases. Let the plant grow freely in open sunny areas.

Bloom time: Flowering takes place in 8-10 weeks of seed sowing. Flowers last for about 3-4 months or more.