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Which cosmos is this if it is?

wakeshinewakeshine Posts: 975

I saw this beautiful flower in a wildlife garden. I think it's a cosmos, but I'm not entirely sure. It was just on its own, and it was really tall. Deep maroon colour. I would like to identify which variety it is, and get one/some! I looked online for pictures of cosmos, and I found one called Rubenza. Its description said that it was a short one, this was tall.

Any ideas? Photos are not very good sorry and don't do justice to the flower's beauty!

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Does it smell of chocolate?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    Cosmos "dazzler" grows to 4 ft.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    I think the leaves are too feathery for chocolate cosmos. They tend to be more like dahlia leaves and the flowers have a dark centre.

  • wakeshinewakeshine Posts: 975

    Oh perhaps it's dazzler..thing is, it wasn't pink or cerise, it was like deep maroon or burgundy.

    B3 I didn't smell it. Does the chocolate one have a yellow centre though?

    Last edited: 06 July 2016 22:01:11

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Sorry, wakeshine, I don't knowimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wakeshinewakeshine Posts: 975

    Haha Pansyface. Well we could do that too lol. 

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410

    Looks like Rubenza to me - have grown it from seed for the first time here, and it is a lovely deep maroon colour - really pleased with itimage

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,354

    I have grown a mix of Rubenza and the yellow cosmos for the first time this year. They are in bud. If the Rubenza open to this colour I will be well chuffed! image

    Last edited: 07 July 2016 07:36:22

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • wakeshinewakeshine Posts: 975

    If you can, please update here when they open Topbird..!

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,354

    Will do Wakeshineimage

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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