Each spring I order seeds from the Burpee Seed Company and Charlie plants them in the bed he has carefully mulched and then worked up in June. I buy cosmos, sunflowers, zinnia and four o’clocks which bloom abundantly until the first freeze. The zinnia are a range of bright colors and the cosmos are pink, white and raspberry. Usually.
This year I first noticed the leaves in the foreground of the photo, unlike ones I knew. To the right of those are the feathery ones I know are the usual cosmos. I thought they might be weeds, but Charlie suggested waiting to see if they bloomed. (He later admitted he didn’t feel like pulling them out the day I spotted them.)
To my delight they turned out to be an orange cosmos the color of Icelandic poppies, a flower I have always loved. They have bloomed before their cousin cosmos, so right now they get to dazzle uninterrupted. I don’t know if some person at Burpee decided to jolt me out of my yearly routine by sending the seeds. At any rate, they are a welcome surprise. Now I just have to find the variety so I can order them next year.
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Good results. It is a good thing that Charlie felt off pulling up weeds that day
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For sure.
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Beautiful! I love orange flowers! 🙂
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Excellent, well done Charlie!
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That sounds like a wonderful mistake indeed. I would have probably thought they were weeds too. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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What a striking colour. How do you manage to have not a single weed between the bricks on the path?
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I cannot tell you the joy you gave Charlie by mentioning that. He said to tell you each year he has to remove a bazillion hopeful maple seeds between the bricks lest we sprout a maple forest. By the way all the bricks were salvaged on his many trips to abandoned factories around here.
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It looks superb. We have the same problem with maples, which we call sycamores over here!
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Charlie felt consoled knowing that.
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So pretty! A happy mistake indeed!
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That was a surprise for you, how lovely🥰
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Very beautiful!😘P&B
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What a delighful surprise Elizabeth! 😊
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That is a great surprise. How wonderful. Our zinnias this year are like weak sisters. So are the gerbia daisies. They’re waterlogged.
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Our zinnias stood up after a heavy downpour. I was afraid they would stay prostrate all summer!
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Ours have stood up, but they are skinny and thin. I feel like producing a bloom takes all they have. Don’t even get me started on the snapdragons. Beyond sad.
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I never plant snapdragons though I love them. Do you direct seed them or start them indoors?
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I buy the plant at the garden center in June and plant it in my garden.
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Smart woman. I will try that next year.
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👍
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Definitely a welcome surprise 😊
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Now I have to find out what variety they are. I like them better in fact.
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