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Cosmos bipinnatus |
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Good old-fashioned garden annual. The photos of the pink-flowered variety on this page are of plants grown from 'Seashells mix' seed, known for its fluted petals. Some of ours had 'm, others had the regular look (which is just fine, too). A year later, we grew new plants from the same seed mix. All summer long, we waited, watching the plants reach a great volume and eventually flopping over unceremoniously - and then, in the second half of October, suddenly a flush of flowers. And the flowers were white! Go figure.
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| | Grown from seed sold as 'Candy Stripe' – but the flowers are variable, not quite like the ones pictured ion the packed |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: back fence border About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Alan | Sep 05, 2009 | Like you, I really like this plant, both the taller and the smaller varieties. First saw it growing in Alpine valleys in Austria, so it can put on a lot of growth in a short growing season. I plant it out midsummer to fill in gaps in the border. Very reliable flowerer, right through to first frosts here in England. And the leaves look decorative and delicate too - asparagus-like and bending gracefully in the breeze. Also very easy to germinate - and seeds last for more than a year - had good normal % germination from two-year-old seed this year. |
- Seed 'Seashells mix' T'07 (from Burpee). Baggy 70F (63%G, 4d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (47%G, 4-6d)
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