Back in April a neighbor gave me a smallish plant for helping her get her clematis trellised. She didn't know what it was as a bunch of them had been given to her. So I planted it with my Hyacinth Bean Vine plants and it went to town.  Soon it was taking over and choking out the vines, so I transplanted it to it's own pot. I never got a picture of it when it was small, but I've taken the following pictures over the course of May and June.



Taken in May, about 2-3 weeks after transplanting it.






Buds in Early June


The first flower to open ... early June













By mid June there were tons of pretty yellow flowers on it.

Early in July I joined GardenGuides.com and found a forum board for getting help in identifying plants. I posted pictures of the flowers and finally got an id on the plant. It's a Double Sunburst Coreopsis. As of right now though it's all leaves. All the flowers died back and so I cut the flower stems back. From what I've read on the plant guides it should flower again before fall. And it's a perennial, so I can cut it back in the late fall and I'll over winter it at Rick's parent's with the plants his mom overwinters and should have pretty flowers again in June.

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