The main garden features of hardy perennial Coreopsis are that they flower prolifically, and they flower for a very long time—from late spring through to the end of summer, and later! Coreopsis are excellent plants for the front of sunny beds and borders. There are more than a hundred species, and most come originally from the Americas.

These plants, also known as tickseed, produce daisy-like flowers—in other words, each flower has a central disc, and radiating out from it are petals—usually eight of them. These petals are usually shades of yellow, but there are forms in mahogany, red, pink or white.

Coreopsis plants can be sheared over, just above the basal foliage, as the first flush of flower draws to a close—usually around the end of July. Otherwise, deadhead regularly so that more flowers come. These plants soon form good-sized clumps, so regular division every few years is a good idea, to keep them in good form.