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20PCS/Pkt Seeds Rare Chocolate Cosmos Flower (New seeds, high germination,  Zones: 1-11, Hardy Perennial, Professional Pack)

Product description:

Cosmea is an ideal flower for gardeners who want to grow a lush, bright, tall and unpretentious flower on their plot.

Description

Cosmea (folk name – "Cosmos") – belongs to the genus of annual and perennial herbaceous crops from the Asteraceae family. In its natural environment, it is found everywhere on the territory of South (less often North) America.

To date, researchers have identified about 40 separate varieties of cosmea.  

Cosmea is represented by numerous shoots of green color with reddish veins. Depending on the variety and type of flower, individual shoots can grow up to 1.5 meters in height. The green growth of the cosmea has a sprawling structure, which is why the plant is often confused with a shrub.

The flowering of the cosmea lasts about 3 months – it begins in June or July and ends with the onset of the first frosts. The inflorescences of the cosmea are large, paniculate, usually do not exceed 12 cm in diameter. The buds are tubular, pinkish, blue, red, brown or purple in color with yellow anthers.

Instructions for planting and care:

How to properly care for?

Cosmea is considered a rather unpretentious flower when it comes to care – it has excellent immunity, which allows the plant to bloom even on depleted soil without regular care of the gardener. The whole process of caring for the flowers of the cosmea is reduced to watering, fertilizing, loosening and decorative pruning.

Watering

Kosmea refers to garden crops that poorly retain moisture at the roots, and therefore watering this plant should not only be abundant, but also frequent. Young seedlings are watered every 2-3 days, older bushes – 1 time a week or as the earth crust dries in the trunk circle of the flower.

Watering one adult bush of cosmea should take about 4 ten-liter buckets of settled water. Water should be applied exclusively under the roots, since when watering with a watering can there is a chance of rotting flower shoots and sun burns. It is better to carry out the watering procedure itself in the early morning or evening.

In dry seasons, the cosmea needs intensive watering – in this case, it is impossible to allow the formation of a dry crust in the trunk circle near the flower. Due to lack of moisture, the number of cosmea buds decreases sharply, the flower itself withers and weakens.

Top dressing

Vitamin top dressing is applied to the soil to the kosmea 3 times per season. The very first top dressing is carried out 14-15 days after planting seedlings in a permanent place – complex mineral fertilizers are best suited here. The second feeding is carried out during the formation of buds. The third and last feeding should be carried out during the flowering of the cosmea – for a more saturated color of the buds and prolongation of flowering.

Kosmea is not bad for organic fertilizers, but they should not be introduced into the soil in fresh form – this applies to compost or manure.

Organic top dressing is usually applied to the soil to the cosmos or serves as a mulched layer, but mineral fertilizers are usually mixed with water to water the plant and can be fed under the roots of the flower or sprayed over its shoots.

The main thing with fertilizers is not to overdo it: an excess of vitamins in the soil can lead to flower wilting or a decrease in the number of buds.

Top Dressing is usually applied only to depleted soil, where the bushes of cosmea grow; on fertile, vitamin-rich soils, additional top dressing for these flowers is not required.

Pruning and loosening

In order for the cosmea bushes to preserve their decorative appearance for a longer period, it is advised to remove their dry and faded buds immediately – this will stimulate the growth of other buds and prolong the flowering period.

Some varieties of cosmea are characterized by excessive bushiness, and therefore young shoots of cosmea are sometimes pinched even before the period of active growth – in perennial varieties this is usually done in early spring. A regular haircut will help to maintain the decorative appearance of the flower. During this procedure, it is advised to remove no more than 30 cm from young and adult shoots.

If the bush of the cosmea has grown too much, gardeners are advised to organize a strong support so that the high shoots of the flower do not break down under the wind or under their own weight.

Another important step in the care of the cosmea is loosening the earth in the trunk circle near the flower. This not only facilitates the soil, but also makes it more airy, which allows oxygen and moisture to reach the roots of the flower unhindered.

In addition, summer and spring loosening will rid the soil near the flower of weeds, but loosening before frost will remove the larvae of pests hiding there for the winter from the soil.

Wintering

If you are going to grow a perennial cosmea in your garden, then in the autumn, before the first frosts, the flower needs to be properly prepared for wintering. Experienced gardeners cut all the shoots and buds of the cosmea to a level of 10-15 cm above the ground, and then cover with a layer of lapnik, which will protect the flower from frost and heavy snow. It is better not to use fallen foliage for shelter – the larvae of many garden pests prefer to winter in it. To keep the roots of the flower from freezing, a layer of mulch from straw, peat, rotted manure, sawdust or tree bark is necessarily organized in the trunk circle.

With the onset of the first warm spring days, the shelter from the cosmea is removed so that the flower does not burn under the sunlight.

If the perennial cosmea is grown in southern regions with long and harsh winters, then it is best to dig up the flower for the wintering period and transplant it together with the earthen lump into a temporary pot where it will be stored until the onset of heat.

Reproduction

Experienced gardeners prefer to grow cosmea by seed method – this is a rather painstaking and difficult process for a beginner, but with the right approach, it allows you to save up to 90% of all seeds planted on seedlings. Seed propagation is also popular because of the long shelf life of seeds - they are able to maintain planting properties for 3-5 years. When choosing a seed method, keep in mind that the cosmea belongs to cross-pollinated garden crops, and therefore the manually collected seeds of this flower may lose varietal characteristics.

In addition, growing cosmea seedlings from seeds will postpone the flowering period of the crop for about a month.

Seed propagation includes 2 stages: seed collection and preparation of planting material, as well as direct sowing of seeds in open ground or in prepared containers.

Approximately 2-4 weeks after the end of the flowering period, the fruit boxes of the cosmea begin to actively darken and turn yellow – this is a sure sign that it's time to collect planting material. To prevent the seeds from crumbling prematurely, after flowering, the buds are tied with gauze bags – this allows you to save most of the mature seeds, which in the natural environment simply fall into the soil of the trunk circle of the flower.

According to the condition of the seeds, it is necessary to monitor the unbound fruit boxes – as soon as the planting material darkens, the collected seeds are placed in a warm room with good ventilation and dried at home until planting in special containers or in the open ground.

If you decide to grow cosmea seedlings from seeds at home, then the best time to plant the planting material is the second half of March. For planting, it is best to select large containers with drainage holes.

At the bottom of the tanks, a drainage layer of expanded clay, pebbles or foam is necessarily organized. Any soil can be selected (even for indoor plants), but it must be breathable. In a room with planting material, a stable temperature level of 18-20 degrees should be maintained. The seeds of the flower are slightly pressed into the ground and watered with water at room temperature.

In such conditions, the first shoots of the cosmea will appear in 1.5 weeks after planting. As soon as the seedlings have 3 full–fledged leaves, it is possible to carry out picking - transplanting seedlings into separate cups in which the plant will grow before planting in the open ground.

In order for the seedlings to feel comfortable in a permanent place in the garden, about a month before planting, the seedlings are taken out to the loggia or balcony. Such hardening is carried out every day, and the amount of time on the balcony should gradually increase.

Some gardeners prefer to sow the seeds of the cosmea immediately in the open ground. This is a rather radical method that saves no more than 60% of the total planting material.

In order for the seeds of the cosmea to be able to ascend on the flower bed, they should be planted when the cold nights have already passed and a stable daytime temperature of 12-15 degrees is established. In order for the seeds to rise faster, they should be planted in open sunny areas where the soil warms up regularly.

Seeds are planted in pre-prepared beds or grooves of 2 pieces in one recess. In the future, weak seedlings can be thinned. The seeds are slightly pressed into the ground or simply swatted, then watered with a watering can.

In favorable conditions, the first shoots of the cosmea should appear within 2 weeks after planting. After the appearance of 4-5 leaves, seedlings can be transplanted to a permanent place.

Cosmea is a universal plant for growing on a garden plot – it has not just frequent bright flowers, but also lush rich greenery that will decorate any flower bed.

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