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.
Very lovely. But perhaps you need to set up a little place with a grow light indoors, and start your seeds indoors so that the sprouts can be planted early and blossom at a more reasonable time (and hence providing you with more seeds).
ReplyDeletei sowed the seeds in march, it is warm enough here! and they are supposed to blossom 7 weeks after sowing, even with all the imaginable delay, it is still too much :(
Deletemaybe they are just terribly fussy:)
i started seeds indoors too, yes, some of them have better chances to succeed if started indoors... but cosmos should be easy haha
Maybe, being vain little plants, they just waited, not wanting to be lost in the cacophony of summer.
Deleteeinfach wunderschön, form, farbe und licht. und vor allem so eine erhellende stimmung in den dunklen regnerischen tag. die aufnahmen sind ausnahmslos hervorragend, wundervoll! lieb grüsst dich, renée
ReplyDeleteliebste gruesse dir auch, meine liebe, ich freue mich, dass ich dir keine 'deprimierenden' bilder mehr schenken kann :) (wie Cohens songs :)
Deletestriped blossoms, edged with crimson...
ReplyDeleteall lies from the seed catalog (or does it have something to do with Mendel? or perhaps Mendelssohn, the seeds might be musical. Certainly magical.
Yet you know Darwin is my favorite biologist. In this we are like two peas in a pod.
And I like your 'survival of the fittest' line of reasoning: no seeds- no fitness. It's all about progeny, baby.
In gradina ta, draga, se petrec numai minuni si numai mistere:) Poate ca, de fapt, aceasta este definitia unei gradini adevarate, stiu eu?:) Insa oricat de tocit ar parea termenul pe care il folosesc, chiar cred ca este o Minune, proaspata si vie, plina de culori pe care nu e poti prevedea - poate ca toate astea se potrivesc si definitiei unei picturi, nu numai unei gradini?:) Ah, Giverny!:)
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