Cosmos are freely flowering annual plants that are ridiculously easy to grow. If you’re looking for a flower that will stay in bloom for months and can be grown by simply scattering seeds, cosmos is a great choice.
The flowers sit atop long slender stems and form a cloud of color that not only looks attractive throughout the summer but also attract bees, butterflies, and birds to your garden. Cosmos grow as easily in beds as they do in containers and they also make great cut flowers.
Cosmos can handle drought, poor soil conditions and general neglect. They even self-sow, but not to the point of becoming a nuisance. This is a truly low maintenance plant.
I stopped growing the plant because I found most that you find in the greenhouses are rather small and prone to breakage met as container plants.
That is until I found the Indonesian Cosmos, A popular plant in Indonesian cuisine and is used as a garnish. The lovely 3” flowers are bright yellow and orange; this variety blooms till frost and is very colorful. I started to be disappointed because I did not have a bloom through mid-August. But now they have bright yellow blooms that you can see at the end of my driveway. With thick stems and leaves, grasshoppers, deer, rabbits, and wind do not pose a problem.
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