STARS OF THE MONTH

Cosmos ‘Tip Top Picotee’

It is my duty here to occasionally furnish the readers with some unnecessary information: Picotee means that the petals have edges that are a different colour to the rest of

the flower. It comes from the French ‘Picoté’. Don’t thank me, it was my pleasure. More importantly, cosmos are one of those indispensable annuals – the sort of plant that will

always happily plug a gap. I try to have a few up my sleeve every year for when the early summer flowers (for example, in my garden we have a lot of poppies) begin to look a bit tired and need replacing.

Sow seed indoors in early spring. Pinch out growing tips to get robust and bushy plants. Height x Spread 1.5m x 40cm