| Description | A large annuals with 2-3 inch flowers. The birds love the seeds. |
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| Pronunciation | (KOZ-mos) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Annuals |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | 2-3 inch flowers, eight ray flowers (petal wanna bees) listed as white with margins of crimson, but in my garden I had all white, all pink, all almost red and most combinations of these, in the fall most of the colors were a dark pink |
| Leaves | sessile or short-petioled leaves, narrow linear pinnate segments, ferny in appearance, branches can become brittle |
| Dimensions | tall listed as 3-4 feet tall, my plants exceeded this |
| Maintenance | dead heading, may need staking, I pruned some of the larges branches back to keep them in bounds, will reseed in the garden |
| Propagation | very easy from seeds |
| Native Site | The genus cosmos is native to Mexico. |
| Misc Facts | Cosmos is derived from Greek kosmos (beautiful, ornament). (www.plantlives.com). |
| Author's Notes | It was fun growing these for a few years. The first year I grew the plants from seeds. The next two years I just picked a few of the seedlings from last years plants and I had a free garden. |
| Notes & Reference | #51-Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials (Alan Arimitage) |
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