Cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus, add a giant shout of color into the summer garden, are one of the absolute easiest flowers to grow, and bloom all summer. Cupcakes and Saucers Cosmos are such an interesting shape, each bloom is like a delicate sculpture. In this cheerful mix of pink and white blooms look like a cupcake wrapper, with a smaller saucer bloom inside. Whimsical and special, we are loving this new shape.
Planting conditions: Not too picky, tolerant of a variety of soil types, and happiest in full sun.
Care: Once they are happy and established in your garden, they are drought-tolerant, but will bloom more with more water.
Blooms: All summer. Deadhead the blooms regularly (meaning cut the flowers for bouquets, or if the flowers die on the plant cut them off) to encourage more blooms.
Self-seeding annual: Cosmos are annuals, meaning they die over the winter, but they self-seed so they will naturally come back the following year in your garden.
Ships: as 3 plants in 2" diameter pots, in the Spring.
Growth habit: Cosmos are a branching plant, with many stalks with multiple blooms. Space your Cosmos about 12" apart.
Size when mature: 48"
Growing specifics: If you don't want the flowers to self-seed and come back the next year, make sure to pick the flowers before they set seeds.
Pinch: When the plant is about 12" tall you can 'pinch it' which is to pinch of the main middle bud so that the plant is encouraged to be bushier and more full of blooms as it matures.
Plant outside after your last frost date.
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