I've been waiting and waiting for the right opportunity to get these seeds into the soil - but it's either been the case that the soil hasn't been warm enough or moist enough to put them in. Or, I have to confess, I missed a few chances because I'd planted out other seedlings into patches I'd previously earmarked to sow the dark mix into...
On the packet the instructions read 'Sow March to May' but I didn't fancy its chances earlier in the year in this, officially, the sixth coldest UK spring on record. Even now, temperatures are not reliably warm, but we are reaching the end of the planting window and I'm away next week. So.... it was down to the allotment to clear and weed a 2 meter squared bed and in with the seeds. I can now sleep easily, knowing that they are finally sown! I look forward to meeting them when they are grown ups.
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Dazzler'. Why is this gorgeous selection no longer widely available from the main seed suppliers?