Looking great in the garden now is the amazing southeast US (coastal NC south to northern Florida) native, Coreopsis palustris ‘Summer Sunshine’. Our 2000 introduction has rated at the top of the list at the famed Mt. Cuba native plant trials. It’s nice when one of our introductions get the independent adulation it deserves. Although the specific epithet “palustris” is Latin for swamp dweller, this amazing perennial thrives in all but the driest of garden soils. Below is a clump from our garden in October. Hardiness is Zone 6a-9b.
Beautiful!