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Can you identify & Chocolate Cosmos

Wrigs21Wrigs21 Posts: 194
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Evening all 

Any clues as to the species in the photo please, really nice deep purple under leaf. 



On a separate tip any one had any success on growing Chocolate Cosmos. Look great but not sure how well they cope with the British winter? 
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Chocolate cosmos isn't frost hardy in the UK so would need protection in most areas. 
    Sorry - I don't know your other plant, although it looks familiar. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Might be Plectranthus Ciliatus ‘Nico’ or something similar. 
  • Wrigs21Wrigs21 Posts: 194
    Fairygirl said:
    Chocolate cosmos isn't frost hardy in the UK so would need protection in most areas. 
    Sorry - I don't know your other plant, although it looks familiar. 
    I spotted one in your neck of the woods (well West Scotland!) in Inverewe gardens that looked great 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited September 2020
    Yes - but they'd need overwintered, although Inverewe has a well known micro climate  as it's coastal /Gulf stream etc:)
    They're often grown from seed each year too.

    The west of Scotland is a big place  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Wrigs21Wrigs21 Posts: 194
    Ha ha yes as I found out during my wonder today. Thanks for the heads up sounds like they’re out for what I have planned sadly 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's a lovely plant, and I've often been tempted myself. We get upwards of fifty or sixty frosts here every year, as well as all sorts of other stuff, so I'd need to sow seed each year.
    I'm too lazy   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    My chocolate cosmos have occasionally survived outdoors here in Lincolnshire, but this year I'm going to dig them up and bring them under shelter... fingers crossed...
    Lincolnshire
  • Wrigs21Wrigs21 Posts: 194
    Good luck. I think from these comments however sadly it won’t be one for my garden 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I didn’t think chocolate cosmos grew from seed? Or are you talking about the other one? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'm sure I've seen it as seed @Lyn, although it's more often done as cuttings. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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