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Title: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on June 28, 2010, 21:47:38
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/nonrancher/cosdoubleclck.jpg)

I tried some light  pink "Double Click" cosmos seed for first time but, I don't know,
maybe I'm set in my ways but somehow it just doesn't look like a cosmos should look as well as being smaller than the maroon ones.  :-\
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: Flighty on June 28, 2010, 22:01:54
I like the white one Purity!  :)
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on June 29, 2010, 10:55:37
Quote from: Flighty on June 28, 2010, 22:01:54
I like the white one Purity!  :)
Did your Purity grow amazingly tall and rangey? Ours did last year and towered over everything but I did like its true Cosmos type flowers.
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: Flighty on June 30, 2010, 17:32:28
I don't have much success growing them so I admire other peoples!  :)
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: SMP1704 on June 30, 2010, 20:53:35
I'm growing double click for the first time this year.  The pale pink do seem to be small but the magenta/purple ones are huge.  I'll take some pics when I'm at the plot.
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: campanula on July 01, 2010, 00:31:01
there is a lot of variation in cosmos - daydream is a lovely blossom but very small and floriferous - a nightmare to deadhead. Psychle (I think) is another tall white with a few more petals than purity. I also love the deep tatra pinks - almost a slatey colour. Usually, they will self seed every year if you have fairly light soil and the ones which do that are invariably much better stronger plants.
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: landimad on July 06, 2010, 22:16:30
Here are a few of my cosmos growing in my place.
(http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad68/landimad/garden/July%201st%202010/cosmoslilac.jpg)
(http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad68/landimad/garden/July%201st%202010/cosmosmaroon.jpg)
Just waiting for more of them to show, about fifty plants in all and we love them as much as the insects do.
Title: Re: Cosmos "Double Click" an Improvement?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 07, 2010, 01:04:11
good rich color shots, Landimad.

Temperature here today 38.3 (101 F) so our cosmos are panting and struggling.