When the heat makes gardeners want to stay indoors, it’s nice to have reliable, flowering plants that keep on looking good even when they don’t get a lot of attention.
The landscape performance of thread-leaf coreopsis, or Coreopsis verticillata, has made these plants outstanding choices for season-long color. And since it is an easy-to-grow, flowering perennial, beginner gardeners can have success almost immediately.
Coreopsis’ flowering is non-stop, covering the plants with a profusion of bright yellow and gold blooms. And Coreopsis verticillata is much longer-lived than the other perennial varieties of coreopsis.

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