View allAll Photos Tagged COSMOS.
© Aqeel Qureshi All Rights Reserved. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without explicit permission.
Taken last year after a frosty night which finished off the cosmos flowers. At the moment everything on my balcony is still trying to hang on.
Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos or Mexican aster, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the Americas. The species and its varieties and cultivars are popular as ornamental plants in temperate climate gardens.
Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos, consisting of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Wikipedia
A friend kindly sent me cosmos seeds from the USA last winter which I carefully tucked away ready for Spring. So carefully that I still haven't found them :(
Hopefully they will reappear this year, but in the meantime I went out and bought some cosmos seeds for the first time and they have been beautiful! Flowering for weeks and still going strong.
Thank you Joan (and Odile!) for helping me find these lovely flowers!