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My garden this morning: the first frost...

(you can also spot the remains of the cosmos, ah so bright still a few days ago)

 

and here they are

 

 Cosmos has been one of my favourite flowers, ever since i discovered a whole field full of them in Japan, not knowing what they were. I have grown these from seeds and they didn't flower at all all summer, just kept getting taller and taller, no buds, nothing - i was so upset i wanted to pull them all out, but as i had nothing to teplace them, i thought green stalks were still better than empty spaces (not a very japanese thought :). In the end they got taller than me, i couldn't believe my eyes...

And then oh mystery, they started forming buds beginning of october!!! (aren't they supposed to be summer flowers?) and bloomed starting late october... well they only stopped yesterday, when the first freezing temperatures killed them over night. They haven't even had time to produce seeds, not a wise move in this darwinian universe... I should also mention that the seeds were supposed to produce striped blossoms, edged with crimson, but no sign of that... Still they were so dazzling i couldn't stop sneaking out to look at them all the time, i will have more cosmos series soon (so i really hope you like cosmos too :). 

And maybe it is better they flowered so late, when almost everything else had started to fade... almost! because there are also other november wonders i will post later.

ah the colours

 

japanese anemone

 

 

 

 My new obsession - they are still small, but I hope they grow and multiply... 

They are white with soft pink hues, but I have one intense pink as well.