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These stunning flowers grow tall, deep carmine purple blooms above delicate, bright green foliage. Half-hardy in the UK down to -5°C.
Add these stunning, carmine purple flowers to your garden or outdoor container. Growing up to 65cm tall on stems above their delicate foliage, these large flowers are lovely as part of an outdoor scheme or for growing your own flowers to cut and bring indoors. Their open, daisy-like shape is welcoming to pollinators too, so use these to bring wildlife to your garden! Their breathtaking shade of bright purple and delicate, fern-like foliage will make this a valuable addition to your garden, and bring admiration from neighbours and wildlife alike.
Annual
Flower: tall stems
Foliage spring to autumn, flowering May to October
Scientific Name Cosmos bipinnatus 'Apollo Carmine' (double-winged orderly plant, variety: Apollo Carmine)
Common Name Cosmos, Purple Cosmos, Dwarf Cosmos, Apollo Carmine Cosmos
Origin Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica
Pruning Tips Deadhead to prolong flowering; when it's coming to the end of the season, let it go to seed to feed the birds and so you can save some for next year!
Wildlife Value On the RHS' list of Plants for Pollinators, these open flowers will welcome pollinators such as bees with lots of nectar and pollen. They also provide nectar for butterflies like the Monarch butterfly, earning a spot on Butterfly Conservation's Top Butterfly Nectar Plants, and provide forage for other insects too.
Positioning Place in full sun, preferably with shelter from the wind Water Allow the soil to drain and dry out between waters; only water outdoors in very dry weather in the UK.
Soil Grow in moist, well-draining soil; can grow in most types of soil.
Food Feed with a liquid fertiliser/ fertiliser high in potash in the flowering season to encourage your cosmos to keep flowering.
Pet-safe Yes- no toxicity reported, though it's best for the plant and your pets if they don't nibble too much!
Sprouts Top Tips Used to hotter and drier parts of the world than Britain, your Cosmos will do best in well-draining soil with plenty of light. Make sure it gets a drink if there is a drought. If you want more next year, collect some seeds once it finishes flowering in about October, and store them somewhere cool and dry to sow the following year.
This month we have been busier than expected, which is obviously amazing. We have worked with some amazing businesses, including a very nice doughnut cafe thats opened on College Green that you need to check out. We have welcomed Jazz to the team, she's already settling in amazingly. And we look forward to the end of the year for that ever so special quarter that is very very important to retailers like us up and down the country.
We have launched our first (hopefully monthly) ‘Letter from the Founder’ blog post. I talk about a string of bad luck, from water gushing from various ceilings in my life to a break-in, and also reflect on the incredible work we have done to win two awards earlier this year. I look ahead to what’s coming up in August, projects we are working on with our clients, and some thoughts about the rest of the year. And I give an insight into my brain, why I am who I am and why I’m so thankful for all the opportunities, passion and excitement that running Sprouts has given me as a founder and as a woman.