Cosmos seeds. Now safely gathered in.
And after Christmas I will start sowing again, for a summer delight of bees and blooms.
My cut-flower-patch kit cost me about £20 from Ben at Higgledy Garden, mail order. Great value, to get me started. I shall re use my saved seeds, but I’m looking on the website to add new varieties for next year. What are you planning to grow in 2017?
Bramble Garden 
Lovely pictures. One day I shall sow a cut flower patch, in the mean time I will learn from you and enjoy your wonderful pictures. Thankyou
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I should plant cosmos next year. Your photos are lovely.
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Thank you. They have only just stopped flowering. Such good value plants and the bees appreciate them too.
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After receiving lots of comments on my blog from you, I’ve finally managed to track down yours! Beautiful photos. Cosmos is such a wonderful flower to grow as it seems to go on and on and it’s just so pretty. I love the Purity variety, I didn’t used to grow many white flowers but I’ve got a real liking for them over the last few years.
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Oh, thanks so much Jo for taking the time to find me. I’m not easy to track down. I keep my head under the parapet 🙂 x
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Lovely gallery!
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thank you 🙂
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Beautiful photos. You’re right there’s something about the spontaneity of using a phone to capture fleeting moments and the image quality is amazing these days.
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Love your bee photos!
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Thank you 🙂
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All the same things as me! Your garden is going to look so beautiful and colourful Mike.its great to be thinking about next summer flowers when it’s cold and dark outside. Thanks for your kind comments. All the best. Karen x
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Nice post and lovely pictures. I’ve saved my cosmos seed for next year.
I’ll also be growing pot marigolds, cornflowers, sunflowers, love-in-a-mist and nasturtiums. xx
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The seeds do look rather beautifully patterned. I’ve tried saving some C. ‘Bright lights’, so I’ve got my fingers crossed for next year.
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Yes, those seeds caught my eye. They are right by my front door. Good luck with your bright lights seeds. I’m using those desiccating sachets you get with items of shopping. Shoes, a toaster, a laptop and some books all came packaged with the little dry power sachets. They should help to keep seeds fresh and dry.
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I love the way the shadow of the bee has already landed. Fantastic photos.
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Thank you. I just use an i phone. Much more immediate to be honest than carrying round a proper camera. More of a snapshot of life. Thanks for your comments.
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Lovely images of your Cosmos this year. I’ve saved some seed this year but lots has already dropped to the ground, germinated and is now flowering!!
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Quite a lot have dropped here and have germinated. Hopefully they will weather the winter and flower early. One plant did this year, but we didn’t have any frost over the winter. Good luck with yours x
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yes beautiful photos!
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thank you 🙂
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Great pictures, Karen. I have managed to save some cosmos seeds for the first time but it seemed to take ages for the seed to set so I don’t know how viable they are
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I’ve been bobbing in and out of the front door for weeks just waiting for the right moment. I needed three days without rain to dry them off. Just managed it. They go all soggy if not collected just at the right moment. Fingers crossed for yours too. x
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Hmm – and I kept my chosen heads covered with a little net bag so I knew which were purity and which were Candy Stripe, but that probably slowed down the drying process. They certainly never seemed to dry out properly, so that can’t have helped…
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