The intense scarlet red blooms and yellow centers of this bedding plant will stop you in your tracks. ‘Cosmic Red’ blooms all summer and looks great at the front of the border and in containers. As with other cosmos cultivars, grow this plant in full sun and moist, well-drained soil. The already hypnotic color will intensify as light levels increase
This variety is a pollinator magnet and makes for fun, bright early summer bouquets.
Easy to gow. Attracts butterflies and bees. Pest and disease resistance. Low maintenance. Great for mass planting. Excellent cut flowers.
When it comes to annuals, probably no plant adds more color than cosmos.
In the right setting, say a wildflower meadow in late summer, nothing’s more beautiful than a sea of these big ferny plants waving in the wind, loaded with big blooms in pink, white and maroon. But in gardens, most people prefer shorter flowers. So for awhile, some relegated the “tall” cosmos to the group that’s usually called “old fashioned flowers”–beautiful, surely, but a bit tall and rangy for our more sophisticated flower borders today.
Enter the hybridizers. With all that color and such ease of care to work with, they have had a heyday with cosmos. Today, there are all sorts of variations on the originals, some with new-style flowers, and others with simply the classic blooms on shorter plants. All require full sun, and are among the simplest plants on the planet to grow from seed. By the way, even the seeds of cosmos are distinctive; they look like miniature pine needles.
The originals are wildflowers, of course, and this tells you cosmos don’t mind hot dry, conditions. In fact, some consider cosmos desert plants. But they’re incredibly adaptable. And if they’re not fertilized too much, they rapidly develop into large branching plants with deep green fern-like leaves. If you have a dry season, cosmos plants don’t care, and revert to their drought-tolerant roots. Best of all, no matter where they’re growing, they cover themselves with more and more wide (up to 4″) daisy-like blooms from midsummer on. Only a hard frost stops the cosmos parade. They’re fantastic as a blooming screen, or a background for shorter plants. And the big bonus: a grand stand of this garden classic in late summer can provide months of long-stemmed cut flowers for a whole neighborhood.
Cosmos plant Germination:
Germination can be done by direct sowing, tissue paper method or by using cocopeat coins.
Plant tag or labels can be used for tracking the plant location during Germination.
Be sure to check our dwarf cosmos seeds also. We hope you will enjoy it.
No. Of seeds: 20-30
Season: summer/spring
Germination rate: 90%
Plant height : 12″
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