Many thanks @Fairygirl and @Songbird-2 I was in the greenhouse looking for plants that I could pinch as @puncdoc said, but which one? Is Catmint one of those? Or Marigolds, Cleome, Aster?
Otherwise, I have mostly wildflowers and I can’t imagine that something like Yarrow, Knapweed, Echinops, Ox-eye daisies, sunflowers can be pinched out. Your Cosmos look similar to the neighbour’s bed @Songbird-2. I’m sure her plants were not pinched.
As I said, I pinch out my cosmos … they still grow 3 or 4 ft or even more tall. There are some shorter varieties but I like the taller ones for this garden.
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I have read, as well as seen on the TV,( many times) it being advised to pinch put cosmos to get a fuller plant. We much prefer the slightly taller, slimmer cosmos( and you can get more in the ground😊) Therefore, , as always, it comes down to choice and trying out advice from others to get a desired effect.
Thank you so much for your tips! I live in the Southeastern US (near Atlanta), where we have very hot summers. Cosmos grows abundantly down the medians of some of the highways in Georgia. I've not had a lot of success with sweet peas myself, but it's probably myself to blame! LOL
It's more likely to be the heat @lynn.monachese rather than anything you might be doing wrong with the sweet peas. They struggle with that if it's very prolonged. You could try some in a large pot in a shady spot so that the heat isn't such a problem. I grow many like that. We don't have anything like the heat other parts of the UK get, but last summer we had temps in the 30s [centigrade] and that wasn't in direct sun, as that isn't how temps are recorded. One pot struggled for quite a while. Ideally they should take a couple of weeks to germinate, so that the plants don't shoot up too quickly and get leggy. You could sow some now if it's not too hot/cold. Then you can have them outside depending on your conditions. As a general guide, mine get sown during March [ inside] then go outdoors around early May when they're a few inches high. My indoor temps where I have them [kitchen] is around 14 just now unless there's sun coming in, but there's good light, which is also needed. Temps when I sow in March would be too low outside [high single figs or low double if we're lucky] but if you have temps of around mid teens fairly consistently [centigrade] and not dropping severely overnight, you can sow outdoors. You'd just have to put them where they aren't exposed to extremes of heat/cold/wet, so work around your climate.
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I was in the greenhouse looking for plants that I could pinch as @puncdoc said, but which one? Is Catmint one of those? Or Marigolds, Cleome, Aster?
Your Cosmos look similar to the neighbour’s bed @Songbird-2. I’m sure her plants were not pinched.
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There are some shorter varieties but I like the taller ones for this garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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You could try some in a large pot in a shady spot so that the heat isn't such a problem. I grow many like that. We don't have anything like the heat other parts of the UK get, but last summer we had temps in the 30s [centigrade] and that wasn't in direct sun, as that isn't how temps are recorded. One pot struggled for quite a while.
Ideally they should take a couple of weeks to germinate, so that the plants don't shoot up too quickly and get leggy. You could sow some now if it's not too hot/cold. Then you can have them outside depending on your conditions.
As a general guide, mine get sown during March [ inside] then go outdoors around early May when they're a few inches high. My indoor temps where I have them [kitchen] is around 14 just now unless there's sun coming in, but there's good light, which is also needed. Temps when I sow in March would be too low outside [high single figs or low double if we're lucky] but if you have temps of around mid teens fairly consistently [centigrade] and not dropping severely overnight, you can sow outdoors.
You'd just have to put them where they aren't exposed to extremes of heat/cold/wet, so work around your climate.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...