What are the growth advantages of cosmos?

Other names for cosmos

Cosmos, large cosmos, autumn cherry

Growth habits of cosmos

Likes sunlight, not cold-tolerant, afraid of frost, avoids extreme heat. Tolerates poor soil; too much fertilizer and water easily causes excessive vegetative growth with few flowers, or even lodging. Cosmos can self-seed and multiply in large numbers.

Main values of cosmos

Ornamental: Cosmos plants are tall, and their flowering stems sway with the autumn wind, like young maidens wearing floral skirts, with an innocent purity and natural beauty. The petals are numerous, and the capitula are borne on slender pedicels, terminal or axillary. The tubular flowers occupying the central part of the flower disk are all yellow.

Garden varieties include white cosmos, large-flowered cosmos, and purple-red cosmos. Horticultural cultivars are divided into two major systems: early-flowering and late-flowering, and there are also single and double forms.

Medicinal: The whole plant of cosmos can be used as medicine. Functions and indications: acute and chronic dysentery. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.

The flower language of cosmos

Cherish the one before you

The innocence of a young girl