If you prefer to plant delicate chamomile suns in your flower bed, then you probably paid attention to cosmea – an amazing and unpretentious flower that has found the love of landscape designers all over the world.
The plant is native to Mexico, it is often also called the Mexican aster. There are about 25 types of cosme, three of which are grown in our country. The flowers are unpretentious, frost-resistant, tolerate drought well. Another indisputable advantage is the wide variety of colors of this plant, which allows you to decorate gardens in almost any style.
Cosmeya Chocolate, exuding a pleasant chocolate aroma
Kosmeya-shell
Kosmeya Elysee
In summer cottages, this plant will always be a welcome guest. The flowering of an amazing cosmos begins in the second decade of June and lasts until late autumn. The plant is planted in flower beds or in containers, and also used in arrays in front of fences.
In landscape groups, low-growing plant varieties are planted in front of trees and ornamental shrubs. Air-laced filamentous leaves of cosmos and its inflorescences-cups are able to revive and dilute the greenery of plantings with bright colors. Tall flowers are used in mixborders, large flower beds and borders.
Not a single flower garden in naturgardens, as well as in Russian and Alpine-style gardens, where plants are planted in flower beds that have no definite boundaries, can do without cosmos. Such plantings imitate natural vegetation.
In addition to being beautiful and unpretentious, kosmeya does not interfere with the growth of other plants. A non-aggressive root system is highly valued by landscape designers.
Terry kosmeya “Rose Bonbon”
Tall cosmeia bushes can be used as tapeworms or used to create accents in floral arrangements. Low-growing varieties will decorate alpine slides and rockeries well. Often, landscape designers use the so-called Eskimo technique and fill the voids in the flower beds with cosmos with its fluffy thick leaves.
If you still don’t have this flower in your garden, be sure to take a closer look at it. Many of the most beautiful varieties of cosmei will delight you with an extraordinary aroma and wonderful bright colors.
