Cosmos, Common Cosmos, Mexican Aster 'Cosmic Orange'

Planted the seeds on Sunday. It is only Thursday, and the plants are already coming up from the seed. I have the seen these flowers a...Read Moret the Antique Rose Emporium in Independence, Texas. They are beautiful!

The best plant to spoil a pastel cottage garden.

It is the brightest orange in the plant world. (That I've seen) Those tha...Read Moret see my garden never forget it, and ask about it later.. It is a compact version of C. sulphureus of extreme color. They begin blooming in early August, and the plants will continue to be 100% covered with flowers until frost if deadheaded. It is a true front-row border plant in size, but be warned, as a border it may steal the show and distract from even the most impressive plant behind it.

Here's to the reason that road-construction signs are blaze-orange,
James