Coreopsis ‘Heaven’s Gate’

* Common name: Pink tickseed ‘Heaven’s Gate’

* Botanical name: Coreopsis rosea ‘Heaven’s Gate’

* What it is: A new, mounded, thread-leafed perennial flower with the richest pink flowers yet in a tickseed – medium pink petals that darken to raspberry at their bases. Blooms much of the summer.

* Size: 15 to 18 inches tall by 2 feet wide

* Where to use: Sunny foundations, border gardens and for lining walks.

* Care: Lightly shear spent flowers in later summer and it’ll rebloom. Cut browned-out foliage to ground in fall after frost kills it. Fertilize in March with Flower-Tone. Avoid planting in wet clay.

* Great partner: Blue-foliage sun-lovers, such as dwarf blue spruce, ‘Gray Gleam’ juniper, ‘Dallas Blues’ switchgrass or caryopteris (blue mist shrub).