COSMOS CRAZY
This year I grew Cosmos at the front of my border. I thought it would grow to maybe 12 inch high or so. I'd seen it at the Royal Horticultural Society gardens in Harlow Carr, near Harrogate, and there's were quite weedy specimens, about a foot high.
Not mine. Mine are huge, dense bushes, filled with glorious flowers all reaching for the sky. What is more miraculous is that the soil in which they are planted is hard, rocky, clay, and I could not dig deeper than about six inch. I shall grow these again, but not at the front of my borders!
You can see how big they are (there are two side by side). They are burying the heuchera and inbetween, somewhere underneath all that, is a dianthus.
Not mine. Mine are huge, dense bushes, filled with glorious flowers all reaching for the sky. What is more miraculous is that the soil in which they are planted is hard, rocky, clay, and I could not dig deeper than about six inch. I shall grow these again, but not at the front of my borders!
You can see how big they are (there are two side by side). They are burying the heuchera and inbetween, somewhere underneath all that, is a dianthus.