COSMOS 'Psyche White' (Seed)
Large
Sun
White
Reasonable soil
Summer
Pollinator friendly
Description
Height 90-100cm
Cosmos 'Psyche White' has large, showy semi double flowers and is a great subject for home grown cut flowers. Plants are vigorous, semi tall and very free flowering. Blooms are also a good source of pollen and nectar, perfect for pollinators.
Average content per packet: 45 seeds
SOWING:
WHEN:
February - April
WHERE:
Indoors - In seed trays or pots in warm greenhouse or similar.
Outdoors - Where they are to flower.
HOW:
Indoors - Moisten compost before sowing. Sow thinly and cover lightly with compost or vermiculite. Keep moist. When 2 leaves show prick out into trays 4-5cm apart or single pots.
Outdoors - Clean and prepare the seed bed to a fine crumbly soil. Water prior to sowing. Sow or scatter the seeds, then rake into soil and firm gently.
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THE 'White Garden Seed Collection'
6 x Packets of seed for £10.95 - The White Garden is of course intrinsically linked with the garden created by Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst, where she limited her colour palette to whites,