Summer Cosmos

Around Christmas last year, we tried sowing some seeds such as sunflowers, california poppies and cosmos. These are some photos of the cosmos.

We used a colour mix so we were not sure what colours the flowers would be but most of them ended up this purple/pink shade. 

There were a few different ones like the white with pink centre in the middle, and the white/pink combination on the right.

However, I don't think we will grow cosmos next spring/summer. They seem to attract aphids (although maybe because they were all concentrated on the cosmos, our other plants were spared) and are very tall, messy, unwieldy plants. They probably look better grown together in a large quantity, maybe in a cottage garden.

As for our other seeds, the poppies sprouted but didn't thrive. The sunflowers did quite well but I will write another post about those.