Cosmos Seed ( Annual )

Cosmos are annuals, grown for their showy flowers. The flowerheads may be bowl or open cup shaped and are atop of long stems. Cosmos are easy to grow and make good border or container plants. They make for good decorations in flower arrangements and also attract birds, bees, and butterflies to your garden.
Useful gardening information
If you want a head start, you can plant cosmos indoors 4 to 6 weeks before the last spring frost in trays or pots with a good seed-starting mixture. Seedlings grow fast, so move them into 5-inch pots as soon as they're 3 or 4 inches tall.
Plant seeds in moist, well-drained soil about 1/4-inch deep and 12-18 inches apart after the danger of frost has passed. You can also plant transplants instead of seeds. They also like soil that is not too rich.
They can tolerate warm, dry weather.
Depending on the type of flower, cosmos can grow anywhere between 18-60 inches tall. If you are growing cosmos from seeds, be mindful that it takes about 7 weeks to first bloom. After that, though, your flowers should continue to bloom until the next frost.
In order to prolong flowering, you should deadhead the plants (remove the dead/faded flowers).
LET788 Apollo Lovesong Pink/White
With flowers ranging from pink to white and striped combinations in between, Apollo Lovesong Cosmos provide a softer color palette that has found a home across all zones. With a manageable height of just 18 to 36 inches high, Apollo Lovesong can be planted in the center of your garden where you need mid-height blooms. Equally at home in containers, this variety branches nicely and lasts longer than other cosmos.
Attracts bees and butterflies, easy to grow and maintain, fast growing. Use in container garden, cut flower garden, landscaping.
110mg pack ( about 25 seeds ) $3.95
TCB034 Sensation Mix Cosmos ( Cosmos bipinnatus )
A virtual artist's palate of color with four inch single flowers that have yellow centers with light and dark pink and variegated petals; color galore for the summer and fall garden. Grows to 4 feet tall. Large plants make a bold, beautiful statement in your flower garden.
Easy to grow. Graceful for backgrounds, borders and bouquets, with seed heads that attract birds. Tolerates poor soil and hot, humid conditions.
 1/2 ounce pack ( over 2,000 seeds ) $5.95
LET668 Casanova Violet
What a delightful new variety. Casanova Violet is a compact annual to 12 inches, with bright green, finel- divided, feathery foliage on branching, upright stems. Dark, bluish-red, saucer-shaped flowers 3 inches across, with a yellow button center, are produced throughout the summer. Becoming the horticultural standard variety for potted plant sales, Casanova deliveries stunning performance all summer long on compact semi dwarf branching plants that are extremely free flowering.
210mg pack ( about 25 seeds ) $3.95
JB080 Sunny Red ( Cosmos bipinnatus )
1986 AAS Flower Award Winner. The dwarf habit of Sunny Red eliminates the need for staking. In addition, cosmos Sunny Red does not require pinching, pruning or other garden maintenance to enhance its dependable summer performance. It prefers full sun in the garden and thrives in the summer heat and humidity. A continuous bloomer, growing about 20 inches tall. Blooms in six weeks from seed.
  175mg ( about 25 seeds ) $2.95
LET669 Cosmic Red
Stoplight-red blooms and nonstop blooms all summer, makes this variety the most exciting yet in terms of intense, eye-popping beauty. These blooms are a brilliant scarlet-red, their color becoming brighter and more intense as the summer sun grows hotter. You can't beat Cosmic Red Cosmos for a mass planting alongside the driveway or blazing cement patio, where Cosmic Red Cosmos will soak up the heat and look all the better for it.
Growing only 12 inches tall, this compact variety will fit just about anywhere.
150mg ( about 25 seeds ) $2.95
LET553 Cosmic Mix ( Cosmos bipinnatus )
Vivid blooms on well-branched, compact plants contribute to the popularity of this vibrant mixture. It blooms in a short 9-10 week window in packs, and 11 to 12 weeks in 4" pots. Gardeners are delighted with continuous flowering throughout the gardening season. Dazzling mixture of the orange, red and yellow.
Blooms just 8 to 10 weeks after sowing. Ferny foliage makes a superb filler in bouquets. Tolerates heat, humidity and drought. Grows 12 to 18 inches tall. Annual
  150mg ( about 25 seeds ) $2.95
Cosmic Orange Cosmos
JB067 Cosmic Orange ( Cosmos bipinnatus )
2000 AAS Flower Winner. Cosmic Orange is an improved Cosmos sulphureus deserving a sunny site in your garden. Cosmic Orange attains a height of about 12-22 inches in a full-sun garden. The vigorous plants provide abundant, bright orange 2-inch blooms all summer. Basically pest and disease-free, Cosmic Orange is adaptable and easy-to-grow. This is a "no fuss" annual that will thrive on minimal care. Only water, sun, and fertile soil are needed for Cosmic Orange to bloom its head off all summer and into the fall.
  175mg ( about 25 seeds ) $2.95
LET558 Ladybird Mix ( Cosmos sulphurous )
Semi-double blossoms in smoldering shades of scarlet orange, orange, and yellow. Flowers attract butterflies. Ladybird is a dwarf, early flowering strain highly resistant to heat and arid growing conditions.
This uniform series produces multiple branches from the plant's base. Plants flower continuously over a long period producing an abundance of medium-sized semi-double flowers. Dwarf and early flowering, they remain dwarf and compact under high temperatures and arid conditions Produces an abundance of 2 1/4 inch semi-double flowers. Suitable for 4 inch pot production as well as cell packs. Plant height is 12-16 inches with a spread of 16 inches.
  145mg ( about 25 seeds ) $2.95