Coreopsis Ruby Frost Live Plant – Perennial Flower, Frost-Tolerant, 1″-3″ Tall Starter

Overview

Introduce a splash of vibrant color and enduring beauty to your garden with the Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant. This captivating perennial, also commonly known as Tickseed, is celebrated for its stunning ruby-red flowers with delicate white frosting on the petal tips, creating a truly unique and eye-catching display. Our offering is a healthy, well-rooted starter plant, ready to establish itself and flourish in your landscape. Coreopsis ‘Ruby Frost’ is a relatively new and highly sought-after variety, prized not only for its distinctive bicolor blooms but also for its robust nature and extended flowering season. It’s an excellent choice for gardeners looking to add continuous visual interest from early summer into fall. As a frost tolerant perennial, it provides reliable performance year after year, returning with renewed vigor after winter.

This particular variety of Coreopsis is known for its compact growth habit, making it versatile for various garden applications. Whether you’re enhancing a mixed perennial border, creating a vibrant container display, or attracting pollinators like bees and butterflies, the Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant is an outstanding selection. It’s a low-maintenance gem that delivers high visual impact, bringing charm and elegance to any outdoor space. Our starter plants are carefully cultivated to ensure they arrive healthy and ready for successful transplanting into your garden.

Key Benefits

The Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant offers a multitude of benefits that make it a standout choice for any garden. Its unique characteristics provide both aesthetic appeal and practical advantages, ensuring a rewarding gardening experience.

• Continuous Vibrant Blooms: Enjoy a prolonged flowering season from early summer through fall, with striking ruby-red flowers adorned with frosty white tips. This unique bicolor pattern ensures your garden remains dynamic and beautiful for months, providing a constant source of visual delight.
• Exceptional Frost Tolerance: As a robust frost tolerant perennial, this Coreopsis variety can withstand cooler temperatures and return reliably each spring, offering consistent beauty without the need for annual replanting in USDA zones 5-9.
• Attracts Pollinators: The cheerful blooms of the Coreopsis perennial flower are a magnet for beneficial insects such as bees and butterflies, contributing positively to local biodiversity and supporting a healthy garden ecosystem.
• Low Maintenance & Drought Tolerant: Once established, ‘Ruby Frost’ is remarkably easy to care for, requiring minimal attention. It is also quite drought-tolerant, making it an excellent choice for water-wise gardening and busy individuals.
• Versatile Garden Use: Its compact size and vibrant blooms make it perfect for a variety of landscaping applications, including borders, mass plantings, rock gardens, cottage gardens, or as an eye-catching specimen in containers on patios and balconies.
• Deer Resistant: Coreopsis is generally known for its resistance to deer, providing peace of mind that your beautiful blooms are less likely to become an unwelcome snack for local wildlife.
• Excellent Cut Flower: The charming flowers last well in vases, allowing you to bring the beauty of your garden indoors to create lovely floral arrangements.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant is straightforward, making it an excellent choice for both novice and experienced gardeners. To ensure your plant thrives and produces an abundance of its beautiful blooms, follow these guidelines. This Coreopsis perennial flower prefers a location with full sun, meaning it needs at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day for optimal flowering. Insufficient light can lead to leggy growth and fewer blossoms. When it comes to watering, moderate watering is key. Keep the soil slightly moist when the plant is newly established, but once mature, allow the topsoil to dry out between waterings. Coreopsis dislikes soggy conditions, which can lead to root rot, so proper drainage is crucial.

The ideal soil for your Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant is well-drained, sandy, or loamy. While it tolerates poor soil conditions, it will not do well in heavy clay. A soil pH between 6.0 and 7.0 is preferred. Fertilize lightly in early spring with a balanced fertilizer (e.g., 10-10-10) to encourage healthy growth and flowering. Avoid overfertilizing, as this can lead to lush foliage at the expense of blooms. Pruning is essential for continuous flowering; deadhead spent blooms regularly to encourage the plant to produce more flowers. After the first major flush of blooms, cut the plant back by about one-third to promote reblooming. In late fall or early spring, you can trim the entire plant down to ground level to prepare it for the next growing season. This Ruby Frost care routine will help maintain a vigorous and floriferous plant for many years to come. This plant is a fantastic Coreopsis starter plant and will quickly establish in your garden with proper care.

The frost tolerant perennial is hardy in USDA zones 5–9, tolerating both heat and mild frost. It’s a resilient plant that can handle a range of environmental conditions once established. Monitor for common garden pests, though Coreopsis is generally quite resistant. Good air circulation also helps prevent fungal diseases. With these simple care tips, your Coreopsis ‘Ruby Frost’ will be a dazzling highlight in your garden.

Size & Details

You will receive one healthy Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant, provided as a well-rooted plug starter. Each plant typically measures between 1 to 3 inches tall upon arrival, showcasing vigorous young growth ready for transplanting. While the photos often display mature plants for illustrative purposes, please note that your incoming plant is a young starter and will not have flowers at the time of shipment, allowing it to focus its energy on root establishment and future growth. This plug size is ideal for easy planting and quick establishment in your garden beds or containers.

The Coreopsis perennial flower will mature into a compact, mounding plant, generally reaching a height of 12 to 18 inches and a similar spread. Its moderate growth rate means you will see significant development within the first growing season, with abundant blooms appearing from early summer. This size makes it perfect for the front to mid-border, rock gardens, or as part of a mixed container planting. It is shipped with its roots well-integrated into a soil plug, ensuring minimal transplant shock and a strong start in its new home. Expect this Coreopsis starter plant to begin flowering within its first full season of growth, bringing its unique ruby and white blooms to your landscape.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant get? A: This Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant typically grows to a mature height of 12 to 18 inches and spreads about 12 to 18 inches wide, forming a neat, mounding habit. It’s a compact size perfect for various garden applications.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: You will receive a healthy plug starter plant, which is a small, well-rooted plant in its own soil plug, typically 1 to 3 inches tall. This format is excellent for easy transplanting into your garden or a larger pot.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Coreopsis Ruby Frost live plant is an outdoor perennial. It thrives in garden beds, borders, and outdoor containers, providing beautiful blooms throughout the growing season.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This Coreopsis perennial flower requires full sun, meaning at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight daily, for the best growth and most abundant flowering.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, ‘Ruby Frost’ is considered a low-maintenance plant once established. It’s quite resilient and just needs proper sunlight, well-draining soil, and occasional deadheading for continuous blooms. This makes Ruby Frost care relatively simple.
• Q: What condition will the Coreopsis starter plant arrive in? A: Your Coreopsis starter plant will arrive as a healthy, well-rooted plug, ready for planting. While photos show mature plants, your starter will be young and without flowers upon arrival.
• Q: When is the best time to plant this frost tolerant perennial? A: The best time to plant your frost tolerant perennial is in spring after the last frost, or in early fall. This allows the plant to establish its root system before extreme temperatures.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: Yes, Coreopsis ‘Ruby Frost’ is hardy in USDA zones 5 through 9, making it a reliable perennial that will return year after year in these climates, tolerating typical winter conditions.
• Q: How long until it blooms? A: As a starter plant, your Coreopsis ‘Ruby Frost’ should begin to produce its beautiful ruby-red and white blooms within its first full growing season after planting, typically from early summer onwards.
• Q: Does this Coreopsis variety attract pollinators? A: Absolutely! The vibrant flowers of this Coreopsis perennial flower are very attractive to beneficial pollinators such as bees and butterflies, making it a great addition to a pollinator garden.