'bright lights' cosmos......

[buzzcut]

in the spring, received a packet of these in the mail---along with some other gardening information. so, I found a space in the garden and planted the seeds. now, they are about 4ft high and I haven't seen a bud yet.

planted them rather close together, so, now they resemble a tall ornamental grass

actually, what they do look like are my double fern leaf peonies on STEROIDS! lol (without any buds, of course).

would think at least one of the plants would form a flower. maybe that is why they were free and sent in mail.

[Bobberman]

They usually flower quicker when its dry! I have alot of them and love the way they look. The stems will hang down and sometimes break but continue to bloom. I got alot of seeds from mine yesterday! I have one tall cosmo that has no blooms on it yet but you can see where it is forming flowers!
+++You can take one of the long stems and break it off and start another plant just by puttingt it in the water for a few days before planting! Mine are pink with some white and a few dark red. I have some that grew in the gravel drive way and only got a foot tall with flowers. I planted several of the drive way plants and in a week they doubled in size in the garden!! They are very harty plants and can be transplanted even when full grown!

[buzzcut]

this is first time I have grown bright lights cosmos. I usually plant the orange cosmic cosmos---which blooms very quickly. color is so vibrant when planted with sweet potato vine marguerite (as a ground cover). I added canna tropicana to them one year---pretty impressive. just wish my tropicana would have survived tucked away in the basement.

anyway, just didn't know it would take this long to flower---aug. 24th and I think I have found the formation of one bud!

[Bobberman]

I have ones that grew in the gravel from last year that have flowers and are only 9 inches tall. My ones in the garden are 4 foot tall with 10 big branches and 50 flowers on the branches!