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Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Fizzy Pink’'
Possessing incredible flower power, annual cosmos produce a glut of bloom from June until the first frosts, making them a joy to grow. Resembling large daisies, they are friendly looking plants that children warm to, and they open in shades of white, yellow, orange, pink, and red, above gorgeous apple-green ferny foliage. In recent years, they have enjoyed a surge in popularity because they are easy to grow as cut flowers. Like sweet peas, they need to be harvested regularly to maintain their flower production, and they last well in the vase.
Another reason for their vogue is the flowers’ high nectar content. ‘Cosmos have been long-overlooked as plants for insects,’ writes bee expert Dave Goulson in his book Gardening for Bumblebees. ‘They appear on few lists of pollinator-friendly plants, but I find them to be well worth growing, drawing in a broad range of short-tongued bumblebees and hoverflies.’ He is referring largely to the annual Cosmos bipinnatus, which is easy to grow from seed and increasingly available as a pollinator-friendly bedding plant at nurseries and garden centres. During summer and autumn, it hums with the sound of foraging bees.
Most of the 35 species of cosmos hail from Mexico (including C. bipinnatus), but the natural range of the genus extends up into North America and down into South America. C. bipinnatus has been introduced into and naturalized across parts of Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. In the 16th century, Spanish missionary priests, who had been working in Mexico, brought the flower back to Europe. They named it for its perfect circle of petals around a central disc of stamens, which – to them – represented the perfect haloed structure of the universe.
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