RE: Chocolate Cosmos
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Chocolate Cosmos
- From: S* S*
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:50:42 -0700
Janet, do you have a greenhouse or do you winter the cuttings through in the
house?
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson
> [d*@zetnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:22 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Chocolate Cosmos
>
>
> I am surprised at the negative feelings about this plant. In UK it's
> considered rather desirable because of the rich dark colouring of
> both the foliage and the flowers. It seems to be on the borderline of
> hardiness for us, sometimes survives the winter and sometimes
> doesn't. It comes very easily from cuttings and makes a good bushy
> floriferous plant in its first season. I try to take one or two
> cuttings in late summer each year and keep it going very easily that
> way. I don't think it sets seed but once you've got one plant you
> shouldn't need seed as you can bulk up so well from cuttings. Here I
> tend to treat Cosmos atrosanguineus just as I would treat border
> Penstemons which are also on the borderline of hardiness here.
>
> Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, Min temp: -8
>
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